Digital projects of influence and interest
Borderlands Archives Cartography
Chicana/o Activism in the Southern Plains Through Time and Space
Texas Freedom Colonies Project
The Mexican Restaurants of New York City
Bibliography
The publications below are a mix of work that has shaped my thinking and more recent publications on the Latinx Midwest.
Amezcua, Mike, Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Arredondo, Gabriela F. Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
De Genova, Nicholas. Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Fernández, Delia M., Making the Mexirican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism In Grand Rapids, Michigan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Fernández, Lilia. Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2012.
Flores, John H. The Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
García, Juan Ramon. Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
González, Sergio M., Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith In Twentieth-Century Wisconsin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024.
Innis-Jiménez, Michael. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Mora, Juan Ignacio. “Managing the Migration: Latino Intermediaries and the Expansion of United States Migratory Labor from World War I through the Bracero Program.” Journal of American Ethnic History April 2023; 42 (3): 103–129.
Valdés, Dionicio Nodín. Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Vargas, Zaragosa. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Vega, Sujey. Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
