The Latina/o Midwest Reader
Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago R. Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox
Abstract
This anthology challenges the notion that Latinas/os are newcomers to the Midwest by emphasizing that Latinas/os have resided in the region for over a century, and have contributed to the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of rural and urban Midwestern communities. Its eighteen interdisciplinary chapters and introduction essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and politics defining today’s Latina/o Midwest. Some contributors delve into the Latina/o revitalization of rural areas, where communities have launched bold experiments in dual-language immersion education w ... More
This anthology challenges the notion that Latinas/os are newcomers to the Midwest by emphasizing that Latinas/os have resided in the region for over a century, and have contributed to the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of rural and urban Midwestern communities. Its eighteen interdisciplinary chapters and introduction essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and politics defining today’s Latina/o Midwest. Some contributors delve into the Latina/o revitalization of rural areas, where communities have launched bold experiments in dual-language immersion education while seeing integrated neighborhoods, churches, and sports teams become the norm. Others reveal metro areas as laboratories for emerging Latino subjectivities, places where for some, the term Latina/o itself corresponds to a new type of lived identity as different Latina/o groups interact in shared neighborhoods, schools, and workplace.
Keywords:
history,
placemaking,
Midwest,
culture,
labor,
education,
activism,
Spanish language,
Latina/o identity,
demographics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252041211 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: September 2018 |
DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252041211.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Omar Valerio-Jiménez, editor
University of Texas, San Antonio
Santiago R. Vaquera-Vásquez, editor
University of New Mexico
Claire F. Fox, editor
University of Iowa
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