Research Catalog

Title

Mexicans in Minnesota / Dionicio Valdés ; foreword by Bill Holm.

Author

Valdés, Dennis Nodín.

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

ix, 100 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

"As one of the state's fastest-growing ethnic groups, Mexican Americans have been part of Minnesota's history since the early years of the last century. Author Dionicio Valdes discusses the struggles that these immigrants - particularly migrant workers - have faced in making Minnesota their home. Railroad work, meat-packing, and sugar-beet production all offered jobs for Mexicans who first came to the region not in search of a better life and permanent homes, but to work. Mexican Americans have sustained a wide range of community, religious, and cultural institutions and introduced traditional foods and conjunto music to their new communities. Valdes highlights an unprecedented feature of the late twentieth century, the growth of barrios and colonias in communities outside the metropolitan area."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The people of Minnesota

Uniform Title

People of Minnesota.

Subjects

• History
• Minnesota > History
• Foreign workers, Mexican > Minnesota > History
• Migrant agricultural laborers > Minnesota > History
• Mexican Americans > Minnesota > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-93) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Bill Holm -- Mexicans in Minnesota -- Labor and Migration -- World War II and Its Aftermath -- The Chicano Movement and Farm Workers -- Nuevos Horizontes/New Horizons -- The Rural World -- Urban Barrios -- Cultural Expressions and Tension -- Personal Account: A West Side Family / Ramedo Saucedo, Catalina Saucedo.

ISBN

087351520X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005041496

OCLC

57475831

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library