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"From 2000 to 2010, the U.S. Latino population increased by 44 percent. It grew even more--by more than 73 percent--in eight out of twelve midwestern states over the same years. This interdisciplinary anthology of essays examines the history, education, literature, art, and politics of Latinos in the Midwest in view of the demographic changes experienced by states in this region with growing Latino populations and the recent immigration raids in the...
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"Negotiating Latinidad shares the family experiences of twenty Intralatino/as who were born in, and/or grew up in Chicago and have negotiated the national communities embodied in their nuclear and extended families. Intralatino/as are Latino/as of mixed nationalities, such as MexiRicans, MexiGuatemalans, CubanRicans, and SalvadoRicans. These children of Latino/a parents of different Latino American nationalities are the biological instantiation of...
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"Prior to 1960, Mexican Catholics in Chicago could only attend Spanish-language mass at three churches; now nearly 100 area churches offer mass in Spanish, to congregations that are nearly half Mexican and Latino. The third largest archdiocese in the United States has, in many ways, become "Chicago católico," a place where Mexican devotions hold sway well beyond church doors. Deborah E. Kanter uses the Catholic parish in Chicago to investigate Mexican...
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