Mexicans in Wisconsin.

Intro -- Wisconsin's First Mexicano -- Wisconsin's Earlierst Mexican Workers -- Unfriendly Reception -- Community Building in the Colonia -- Finding Community Through Faith -- Education and Language Barriers -- The Sporting Life -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- Postwar Community Life In the Milwaukee Area -- Growing Congregations in Milwaukee and Beyond -- Making Time for Sports -- Fighting for a Place in America -- Los Braceros -- Los Tejanos: Texas-Mexican Migrants -- Immigration and Documentation -- A Growing Focus on the Migrant Workers' Plight -- Organizing in the Fileds: Obberos Unidos -- Meeting the Needs of Displaced Workers -- The United Community Center -- The Council for the Spanish Speaking and the Spanish Center -- The Future of Brown Americans -- Chicano Social Activism -- Chicanas Adelante! Women in the Chicano Movement -- Chicano Campus Activism -- Growing Mexican American Communities Across Southeast Wisconsin -- Fighting for Latino Power in Wisconsin Politics -- Undocumented Immigration in the 1980s -- Emergent Political and Business Power -- Growing Communities, Growing Pains -- Looking to the Future -- Oral History of Graciela De La Cruz -- Lost and Found Language, Oscar Mireles -- Acknowledg ments -- About the Author.

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