MACRI Talk: Making Mexican Chicago
Thu, May 12
|Online event
An exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance.
Time & Location
May 12, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Online event
Guests
About the event
Join MACRI for a virtual conversation with Dr. Mike Amezcua about his recent book exploring the history of the third-largest Mexican American population in the United States. The story of Mexican immigration and integration in Chicago is one of complex political struggles, deeply entwined with issues of housing and neighborhood control.
This FREE virtual event will stream live on Facebook https://bit.ly/MACRI-live & YouTube https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mike Amezcua is a scholar, writer, and teacher of History and Latinx Studies. He is the author of Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification, published by the University of Chicago Press as part of the series, Historical Studies of Urban America. His writing has appeared in The Journal of American History, Journal of Social History, The Sixties, as well as op-eds and commentaries in The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and The Abusable Past. In 2021, he was named…