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Film, Video Making Mexican Chicago

Webinar

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • Making Mexican Chicago

Summary

  • Mike Amezcua is a historian and a professor in Georgetown University's Department of History. His 2022 work, "Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification" explores the growth of Chicago's Mexican/Mexican-American community, its fight for political and cultural recognition, and its battles with gentrification. Amezcua utilized several collections from the Manuscript Division, including the records of the Work Projects Administration and the papers of Democratic political operative John B. Martin and civil rights activist Herbert Hill. Amezcua is part of a new wave of historians exploring the impact of Latinx culture on urban America, a community often ignored or marginalized by broader media. Amezcua also studies issues such as political representation, cultural impact of historic preservation, and gentrification, all critical debates unfolding in cities across the nation.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2023-06-28.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Made at the Library. 3
  • -  Ryan Reft, Mike Amezcua, Loretta Deaver.
  • -  Recorded on 2023-06-28.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2025661301

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Manuscript Division. Making Mexican Chicago. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-28, 2023. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661301/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Manuscript Division, S. B. (2023) Making Mexican Chicago. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-28. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661301/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Manuscript Division. Making Mexican Chicago. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-28, 2023. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661301/>.