Making the MexiRican City Erika Giles and the emerging discourses of

and the emerging discourses of botany and natural history

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which now includes women as well as men

Making the MexiRican City Erika Giles and the emerging discourses ofLarge numbers of Latino migrants began to arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1950s. They joined a small but established Spanish speaking community of people from Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Delia Fernandez Jones merges storytelling with historical analysis to recapture the placemaking practices that these Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans used to create a new home for themselves. Faced with entrenched white racism and hostility, Latinos