Brown in the Windy City

Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Lilia Fernández

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780226244280
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America's great cities. Through their experiences in the city's central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernández demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago, one that was flexible and fluid, neither black nor white.

INDEX

The letter f following a page number denotes a figure. The letter t following a page number denotes a table.

Abbott, Edith, 120

Abbott Homes. See Grace Abbott Homes

ABLA Homes, 101, 103

Acosta, Rigoberto, 169

activism, social, 7, 13–14, 18–19, 40; and accurate censuses, 263–66; and gangs, 182–85, 325n27, 326n47; and Lincoln Park, 174–75, 182–86, 193, 195; and open housing campaign, 218; and Pilsen/Eighteenth Street, 209–10, 224–34, 236–37, 239–61, 264, 337n62, 338n71, 338nn73–74; and political consciousness, 18, 175–76, 180, 182–85, 188, 193, 325nn30–31; and South Chicago, 332n14, 337n62; and women, 13, 18–19, 109, 195, 239–61, 343n30, 344n33; and Young Lords Organization (YLO), 174–75, 182–86, 193, 195, 201

Addams, Jane, 58, 61, 63–64, 105, 107, 119–20

“Adelante Mujer” (June 1972 conference), 248

African Americans, 2–5, 3t, 8–10, 12, 133–34, 264–65, 266t, 268, 271n10, 283n64, 303n39, 312n12; black feminists, 345n53, 347nn76–77; and Black Panther Party (BPP), 183, 186–88, 190, 192, 195, 198, 204–5, 325n30, 327nn56–57; and Black Power, 175, 203, 209, 218, 240; and black riots, 166–68, 170–71, 218–19, 321n103, 321n109, 323n3; and Great Migration, 4, 10, 24–25, 29, 53, 58, 62–63, 92, 94, 133, 167, 170, 218; and Lincoln Park, 174–76, 177t, 180, 182, 184–88, 190, 192, 195, 198, 326n47, 327nn56–57; and migrant labor, 27–28, 47, 50–51, 72, 284n74; on Near North Side, 136, 142–47, 312n15; on Near West Side, 58–59, 61–63, 66, 74–75, 75t, 77–82, 98–105, 100t, 108–9, 111, 114, 125–27, 212, 218, 289n18, 290n19, 294n58, 296n80, 297n83, 302n32, 333n25; and Near West Side Commun...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Series Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One / Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration to Chicago
• Two / Putting Down Roots: Mexican and Puerto Rican Settlement on the Near West Side, 1940–60
• Three / Race, Class, Housing, and Urban Renewal: Dismantling the Near West Side
• Four / Pushing Puerto Ricans Around: Urban Renewal, Race, and Neighborhood Change
• Five / The Evolution of the Young Lords Organization: From Street Gang to Revolutionaries
• Six / From Eighteenth Street to La Dieciocho: Neighborhood Transformation in the Age of the Chicano Movement
• Seven / The Limits of Nationalism: Women’s Activism and the Founding of Mujeres Latinas en Acción
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index