Marcha!

by Pallares, Amalia; Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda

• ISBN13: 9780252077166
• ISBN10: 0252077164
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-04
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Marcha surveys forces that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago, a city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism. Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement, these essays plumb an extraordinarily rich set of data regarding recent immigrant rights activities, defining the cause as a panethnic, transnational movement.

Author Biography

Amalia Pallares is an associate professor of political science and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez is an associate professor of sociology and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of School Kids, Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Timeline of Immigrant Mobilization	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Political and Historical Context
Taking the Public Square: The National Struggle for Immigrant Rights	p. 3
The Chicago Context	p. 37
Institutions
Competing Narratives on the March: The Challenges of News Media Representations in Chicago	p. 65
The Role of the Catholic Church in the Chicago Immigrant Mobilization	p. 79
Hoy Marchamos, Mañana Votamos: It's All Part of the Curriculum	p. 97
Labor Joins la Marcha: How New Immigrant Activists Restored the Meaning of May Day	p. 109
Agency
Marchando al Futuro: Latino Immigrant Rights Leadership in Chicago	p. 123
Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicago: The Newest Agents of Civic Participation	p. 146
Permission to March? High School Youth Participation in the Immigrant Rights Movement	p. 163
Subjectivities
Minutemen and the Subject of Democracy	p. 179
Immigrants, Citizens, or Both? The Second Generation in the Immigrant Rights Marches	p. 198
Representing "La Familia": Family Separation and Immigrant Activism	p. 215
Grappling with Latinidad: Puerto Rican Activism in Chicago's Pro-Immigrant Rights Movement	p. 237
List of Contributors	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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