{"product_id":"puerto-rican-chicago-9780252086281","title":"Puerto Rican Chicago","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Critics’ Choice Book awards of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA-CCBA)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children''s classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago''s Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens. Communities organized a media culture that addressed their concerns while creating and affirming Puerto Rican identities. Education also offered women the only venue to exercise power, and they parlayed their positions to take lead roles in activist and political circles. In time, a politicized Puerto Rican community gave voice to a previously silenced group--and highlighted tha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePuerto Rican Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e provides an invaluable contribution to the history of education, urban history, and Latinx Studies. It reminds us that Latinx communities are richly diverse, not only located in the American West, and that their unique histories are crucial in narrating the development of twentieth-century American cities and schools.\" --\u003ci\u003eHistory of Education Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Velázquez's book is needed now more than ever.\" --\u003ci\u003eHistorical Studies in Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePuerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential contribution to the growing scholarship on Latinos in the Midwest. It powerfully chronicles the persistent efforts of the Puerto Rican community, especially women, to advocate for their children's right to a meaningful education and a more promising future. Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Mirelsie Velázquez' book is a must read for those interested in community-based activism, education, urban history, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies.\"--Lourdes Torres, author of \u003ci\u003ePuerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of A New York Suburb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePuerto Rican Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e innovates by taking up themes that other scholars have neglected. . . . This book shows how deeply students' encounters with schools' practices were affected by their histories.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Al Brincar el Charco: Urban Response to the Puerto Rican “Problem” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Community Visions of Puerto Rican Schooling, 1950–1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Taking It to the Streets: The Puerto Rican Movement for Education in 1970s Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . 87\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Learning to Resist, Resisting to Learn: Puerto Ricans and Higher Education in 1970s Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Living and Writing in the Puerto Rican Diaspora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Winning Means Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138112291159,"sku":"9780252086281","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252086281.jpg?v=1751918034","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/puerto-rican-chicago-9780252086281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}