Books in the Latinos in Chicago and Midwest series

A candid, authentic account of a life in Latino art and politics

Highlighting the influential work of a pioneering Latina ethnographer

Dynamic stories from Chicana Movement participants living in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago

Exploring Latino GBT involvement in the fight against AIDS

The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, this title illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present-day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.

A multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago.

Addresses the story of Mexicans in Chicago and the history of Hull-House. This book examines Mexicans in the Hull-House colonia, Chicago's largest Mexican settlement. It includes 131 color and black-and-white photographs, many of them previously unpublished, and four essays.

A day after 'N' first crossed the US border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, he crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. In this book, he details the constraints, deceptions, and humiliations that characterize alien life "amid the shadows."

A visual and textual journey through the cultural contributions of Puerto Rican artists in the United States