2019

Antonio Ramirez

  • Assistant Professor
  • Elgin Community College
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Project

Chicagolandia: Oral Histories of Chicago’s Latinx Suburbs

Program

Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships

Department

History and Political Science

Abstract

“Chicagolandia” uses oral histories of Latina/os living in the Chicago suburbs from 1960 to the present to complicate popular and scholarly understandings of late-twentieth-century suburbanization and immigration. The project engages questions of race, citizenship, and equality at the nexus of two fields of scholarship—suburban history and Latinx studies—to examine how Latina/os navigated and helped shape the suburbs, a critical site of economic opportunity and political power in the postwar United States.