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Selected Books
Brown in the Windy City : Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago by Call Number: MAIN Library 305.89687 F363bISBN: 9780226244259Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Citizen Illegal (Poems) by Call Number: Main Library Leisure Reading - Book Nook PS3615.L56 C58 2018ISBN: 9781608469543Publication Date: 2018-09-04In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between.
In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship by Call Number: Checked out but Request via ILL!ISBN: 0252083415Publication Date: 2018-02-21In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in particular, makes sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media.
La Causa: Civil Rights, Social Justice and the Struggle for Equality in the Midwest by ISBN: 1558854258Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 2004.
Latino Crossings : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship by Call Number: MAIN Library 305.86872 D317lISBN: 0415934567New York : Routledge, 2003.
Latinos in the Midwest by Call Number: MAIN Library 305.86807 L3578ISBN: 9780870139963East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2011.
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Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race by Call Number: Online and in printISBN: 0190634723Publication Date: 2019-01-22Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose student body is more than 90% Mexican and Puerto Rica, to analyze the racialization of language and its relationship to issues of power and national identity.
