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Latina/osintheCity

ISSUE 03 SPRING ‘24

Letterfromthe Profe...

Latina/o/x communities are central to any reading of cities across the United States. From Boyle Heights to Washington Heights, Latina/o/x have been critical to transforming cities, whether as musicians, laborers, students, etc. This semester we have read texts that challenge monolithic readings of U.S. cities, whether urban or rural communities. These images and stories across this zine bring these communities out of the footnotes of history. I hope we all continue to see ourselves where history has chosen to erase us.

-Prof

Velázquez

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, many Mexican Americans wanted to reconnect with their cultural roots. After many years of oppression and stigmatization and search for meaning and identity, they were encouraged to reach beyond their Spanish language and their Latin American history, and back to the pre-Hispanic heritage of the Aztecs.

The term “Chicano” is based on the indigenous, Nahuatl word “mexica” that was incorporated into Spanish and then used as an identifier in the United States for the descendants of Mexicans starting in the late nineteen fifties and sixties.

The Plan Espiritual de Aztlán (English: "Spiritual Plan of Aztlán") was a pro-indigenist manifesto advocating Chicano nationalism and self-determination for Mexican Americans

ICAA Documents Project Nat ona Youth L beration Conference Group Photo

Alurista author/creator of el plan Espiritual de Aztlán The Return to Aztlan | National Portrait Gallery

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This newspaper clippping highlights the hopes and fears of Pilsen residents about the possible construction of Benito Juarez High School and demolition of Froebel High School.

A journalist was observing the students at the highschool for a year and was there when the initial riots happened. You can see the riots in their school yard and students watching from their classrooms.

Injured police officer that was hit on the face with brick by protesters. The Defender quoted a 9th grader who said she was marching to save Froebel because they did not want to have to go to school with black people. This is reportedly the protest that led to the construction of Benito Juarez High School

WalkoutsoutsideoftheBoard WalkoutsoutsideoftheBoard ofEducationOffices ofEducationOffices

The walkouts of 1968 in Harrison highschool was the first part of the walkouts of 1974.

Pictured is city worker pleading students to not engage in the protest and go home.

Mexicans protested outside of the Board of Education Offices because board of education failed to include bilingual and multicultural programing for Latinx individuals.

Zoot Suit Riots

Young Mexican-American women, known as pachucas, played a significant role in the Zoot Suit Riots of the 1940s by challenging norms through their d stinctive fashion and attitudes, their presence both cha lenged and ntensif ed racial tensions, contributing to the volatile atmosphere during the riots.

cultural ties

Integration

St. Procopius Parish, 1976 Parroquia San Lorenzo Martir, 1983 Our Lady of Guadalupe, 1920s

influencing urban spaces

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 2019

Lorenzo, 2019

“Southeast Chicago Historical Society Digital Archive.” Southeast Chicago Archive & Storytelling Project. Accessed April 21, 2024. https://www.sechicagohistory.org/archive/browse/?neighborhood=south-chicago&ethnicity_race=mexicanamerican&sortField=title&sortDirection=asc.

Sdunn. “How Mexican Immigrants Changed Chicago’s Parishes.” U.S. Catholic, March 11, 2022. https://uscatholic.org/articles/202006/howmexican-immigrants-changed-chicagos-parishes/. Presa, Laura Rodríguez. “Chicago-Area Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 2nd Only to Mexico City, Grows as Faithful Aim to Honor Mary for What They See as Answered Prayers.” Chicago Tribune, December 12, 2019. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/12/11/chicago-area-feast-of-ourlady-of-guadalupe-2nd-only-to-mexico-city-grows-as-faithful-aim-to-honor-mary-for-what-they-see-as-answered-prayers/.