Review: Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification, by Mike Amezcua

IF 0.4 4区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.674

Carolina Ortega

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification, by Mike Amezcua Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification. By Mike Amezcua. ( University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp.) Carolina Ortega Carolina Ortega Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 674–675. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.674 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Carolina Ortega; Review: Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification, by Mike Amezcua. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 674–675. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.674 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search In Making Mexican Chicago, Mike Amezcua examines the Mexican communities that formed in the central city from World War II through the early 2000s. Specifically, he takes readers through the city’s historically Mexican neighborhoods and explores in detail how “Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans were placemakers and community builders who shaped their neighborhoods and instilled in each other a sense of belonging, despite the odds” (p. 14). Situated within urban history, immigration history, political history, and Latinx history, Amezcua highlights the shifting contours of residential segregation, community activism, and belonging in one of the United States’ largest urban centers. Throughout Making Mexican Chicago, Amezcua vibrantly illustrates how displacement, relocation, and the struggle for equitable housing shaped the Mexican Windy City. Ethnic Mexicans had to contend with efforts by city politicians, neighborhood organizations, and federal campaigns that targeted their homes and neighborhoods for slum clearance and redevelopment. Chapter 2... You do not currently have access to this content.

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期刊介绍： For over 70 years, the Pacific Historical Review has accurately and adeptly covered the history of American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, as well as the post-frontier developments of the 20th-century American West. Recent articles have discussed: •Japanese American Internment •The Establishment of Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah •Mexican Americans, Testing, and School Policy 1920-1940 •Irish Immigrant Settlements in Nineteenth-Century California and Australia •American Imperialism in Oceania •Native American Labor in the Early Twentieth Century •U.S.-Philippines Relations •Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1945