Making the MexiRican city : migration, placemaking, and activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan /

Making the MexiRican city : migration, placemaking, and activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan /

"Large numbers of Latino migrants began to arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1950s. They joined a small but established Spanish-speaking community of people from Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Delia Fernández-Jones merges storytelling with historical analysis to recapture the placemakin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernández, Delia M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Series:Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > History.
Hispanic Americans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Politics and government.
Mexican Americans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Social conditions.
Puerto Ricans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Ethnic relations.
Hispanic Americans.
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions.
Puerto Ricans > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) > Ethnic relations.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) > Race relations.
Michigan > Grand Rapids.
History.