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ALLÁ AFUERA: NATION AND MIGRATION IN PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO
The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto
Rican Families. By Gina M. Pérez. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2004. xiv + 276 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography,
index. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in
Puerto Rican Chicago. By Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 289 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index.
$55.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper).
Anne M. Martínez
University of Texas at Austin
In the past decade, Chicana/o
and Puerto Rican Studies scholars have recognized Chicago's importance
for understanding these communities as a site where significant numbers
of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans come together in complex and often perplexing
ways. Only a handful of in-depth studies of Mexicans or Puerto Ricans
in Chicago existed before 1990. These monographs by Gina Pérez
and Ana Ramos-Zayas contribute to a burgeoning collection of works that
significantly shift our thinking about race and migration in urban areas
on the eve of the twenty-first century.
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