Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-urban Experience - Couverture souple

Olmsted, Brett

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252089006 ISBN 13 : 9780252089008

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2025

Synopsis

Shaping a distinctive Midwestern form of Mexicano identity Mexicanos in Michigan and across the Midwest share a common experience: living as largely invisible outsiders as they struggled to build vibrant communities in places that wanted their labor but not their presence. Brett Olmsted ranges from the 1920s to the 1970s as he analyzes how Mexicanos sought to transcend social, cultural, economic, and political exclusion. Never numerous in any one area, Mexican Americans pursued inclusion via leisure spaces and labor unionism. Activities like celebrations, sports, movies, and music encouraged Mexicanos to claim physical and social space, connect with Michigan's other Mexicano communities, and construct their own sense of identity. Mexicano workers, meanwhile, embraced interethnic union activism to address racism in job placement and promotion. Olmsted also examines how the state's Mexicanos adapted to Michigan's dual economy and found advantages in moving back-and-forth between rural and urban areas. In-depth and innovative, Making Michigan Home spotlights the state's overlooked Mexicanos and their distinctive experiences within the Latina/o/x Studies Midwest.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brett Olmsted is a professor of history at San Jacinto College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252089006
• ISBN 13: 9780252089008
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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