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Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighborhoods. This book tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central role in American politics and society. This book reconstructs the everyday strategies the working-class Mexican American community adopted to survive in areas from labor to sports to activism.

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This page is a summary of: Steel Barrio, June 2013, NYU Press,
DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814785850.001.0001.
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