Mexican communities in the Midwestern United States have a history that extends back to the turn of the twentieth century, when a demand for workers in several mass industries brought Mexican agricultural laborers to jobs and homes in the cities. This book offers a comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of these workers and their descendants, using the Mexican barrio of "San Pablo" (St. Paul) Minnesota as a window on the region.
Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews, Dennis Valdes explores how Mexicans created ethnic spaces in Midwestern cities and...
Mexican communities in the Midwestern United States have a history that extends back to the turn of the twentieth century, when a demand for worker...
