| Contents |
Introduction / A. K. Sandoval-Strausz -- Metropolis. 1. Latinx uprisings : violence, representation, and social movements in urban America, 1960s-1970s / Pedro A. Regalado ; 2. "You were the ones that called us, Georgia" : Mexican construction labor as place- and mythmaking / Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez ; 3. Latinos on the crabgrass frontier : migrants, immigrants, race, and the transformation of postwar suburbia / Thomas J. Sugrue ; 4. Are Latino suburbs ethnoburbs? and why it matters / Becky M. Nicolaides -- Neighborhood. 5. Adobe homes for the Sun City's Mexican barrio : community housing alternatives and creative self-determination in El Paso, Texas / Sandra I. Enríquez ; 6. Gods in the city : acción cívica Evangélica and Latino religious politics in New York city, 1969-1978 / Felipe Hinojosa ; 7. The "Puerto Rican exception" and the limits of Latinidad in urban history / Llana Barber ; 8. Latinx palimpsest : remaking a colonia on the edge of Aztlán / Max Krochmal and Cecilia Sánchez Hill ; 9. "Gastronomical gallivanting in foreign fields" : Mexican restaurants and cultural exchange in interwar Chicago / Michael D. Innis-Jiménez -- Hemisphere. 10. LatinX metropolitan pasts : a hemispheric and speculative approach / Eduardo Contreras ; 11. "In the grips of the monster that forced us to flee" : how the Cold War made our Latino cities / Mauricio Castro ; 12. Navigating space and race : Afro-Cubans in Miami and Los Angeles / Monika Gosin. |
| Abstract |
"A wide-ranging collection of essays that centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field. A scholarly discipline that has long scrutinized economics, politics, and the built environment has too often framed race as literally Black and white. This has resulted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the full social canvas of American cities since at least the early twentieth century. Traversing cities like Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, this collection of essays brings together both established and emerging scholars, including long-time urbanists and academics working in the fields of Latino, borderlands, political, landscape, and religious history. Organized at different scales-including city, suburb, neighborhood, and hemisphere-this impressive body of work disrupts long-standing narratives about metropolitan America. The contributors-Llana Barber, Mauricio Castro, Eduardo Contreras, Sandra I. Enríquez, Monika Gosin, Cecilia Sánchez Hill, Felipe Hinojosa, Michael Innis-Jiménez, Max Krochmal, Becky M. Nicolaides, Pedro A. Regalado, Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, and Thomas J. Sugrue-engage a diverse range of subjects, such as urban rebellions, the suburbanization of Latinos, affordable housing, labor, the built environment, transnationalism, place-making, and religious life. The scholars also explore race within Latino communities, as well as the role that political and economic dynamics have played in creating Latino urban spaces. After reading this book, you will never see American cities the same way again"-- Provided by publisher. |
