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"Ethnic Identity among Mexican and Mexican American Women in Chicago, 1920–1991" (Ph.D. diss. Yale University, 1993). De Genova, Nicholas. "Race, space, and the reinvention of Latin America in Mexican Chicago." Latin American Perspectives 25.5 (1998): 87-116. Farr, Marcia. Latino language and literacy in ethnolinguistic Chicago (Routledge, 2005).
This was the heyday of the open-air pushcart market the neighborhood is famous for. After 1920, most of the residents were African Americans who came North in the Great Migration (African American), although most businesses continued to be Jewish-owned. In the 1980s and 1990s, the neighborhood and market became predominantly Mexican-American.
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In 2007 and 2008, sales in traditional markets and tianguis rose between 40 and 44 percent, with sales in lower socioeconomic areas rising between 50 and 53 percent. The most likely reason for this is the economic downturn, which forced families to economize. [7] However, these traditional markets, especially in major cities, face serious problems.
Model of Aztec tianguis at the National Museum of Anthropology Tianguis in Mexico City in 1885 Hall in the La Merced Market in Mexico City. The tradition of buying and selling in temporary markets set up either on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, etc.) is a strong feature in much of Mexican culture and has a history that extends far back into the pre-Hispanic period. [1]
Chi-Chi’s Mexican restaurant is making a comeback, 20 years after the franchise’s last restaurant closed.. The company announced in a press release on Tuesday (December 3) that it will be ...
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South Water Market is a historic produce market in the Lower West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Completed in 1925, the complex was designed as a structured replacement to Chicago's sprawling downtown produce markets on South Water Street; while these markets had existed since the mid-19th century, they had become a traffic and sanitation problem.