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american colonialism
american history
american imperialism
american studies
american west
anthropology
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barrio
borderlands
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citizenship
community
community mobilization
discrimination
displacement
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ethnicity
ethnography
gender
gentrification
identity
immigrants
kinship
latin american studies
latina
latino
latinx
los de afuera
migration
minorities
nonfiction
politics
poverty
puerto rico
race
radicalized lives
region
transnational
urban uprisings
Product details
- ISBN 9780520233683
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2004
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In "The Near Northwest Side Story", Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. Perez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor and working-class Puerto Ricans work to build meaningful communities. Perez traces the changing ways that Puerto Ricans have experienced poverty, displacement, and discrimination and illustrates how they imagine and build extended families and dense social networks that link San Sebastian to barrios in Chicago. She includes an incisive analysis of the role of the state in shaping migration through such projects as the Chardon Plan, Operation Bootstrap, and the Chicago Experiment. "The Near Northwest Side Story" provides a unique window on the many strategies people use to resist the negative consequences of globalization, economic development, and gentrification.
Gina M. Perez is Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies in the Comparative American Studies Program at Oberlin College.
