MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
Hispanics
Forging a Community. The Latino Experience in Northwest Indiana, 1919 - 1975. Edited by James B. Lane and Edward J. Escobar. Cattails Press. 1987. 297 pages. Hardcover.
A collection of almost all of the scholarly works previously written on the Latino Experience in the Calumet Region, as well as several original essays which study Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans in this region. Covers Mexican labor in East Chicago, Gary, the Indiana Harbor Area, contract labor, repatriation, anti-Hispanic movements, and much more.
Price: $17.50
Valdes, Dennis Nodin. Al Norte. Agricultural Workers in the Great Lake Region, 1917 - 1970. University of Texas Press. Austin. 1991. 305 pages. Hardcover.
The first social history to study the migrant workers who came from Texas and northern Mexico to fill jobs in the new sugar beet, fruit and vegetable processing plants in the Great Lakes region.
Price: $7.50