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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Dionicio Nodín Valdés. Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 380. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.95.

In recent years, historians of the Midwest have explained the migrations that resulted once employers stopped recruiting people from Europe and instead looked within the country—or to its borders—for workers. Monographs have appeared detailing the movement of both African Americans and poor whites from the South into the fields and factories of the Midwest. Studies of the movement of people from Mexico and Texas have also enriched our understanding of midwestern in-migration. Dionicio Nodín Valdés first explained the influx of agricultural Mexicanos to the Midwest in Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917–1970 (1991) and has now written a sequel to that book. Broader in historical scope than Zaragosa Vargas's Proletarians of the North (1993), Valdés's work is a welcome and important synthesis of midwestern urban Mexican experiences. Reviewers usually scold writers (or editors) for deceiving titles that exaggerate the scope of a work; in this case, let not the subtitle fool anyone. The Lower West Side barrio in St. Paul, Minnesota, is merely the "window" into discussion of the larger region. Midwestern megalopolises, cities, and towns—from Chaska, Minnesota, to Toledo, Ohio—are discussed, descriptively as well as analytically. The focus, according to Valdés, is how Mexicanos "created ethnic spaces and how their lives and their communities changed during the course of the twentieth century" (p. 2). . . .

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