Mike Amezcua
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Amezcua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Amezcua |
| SIGNATURE | AMEZCUA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A machine in the barrio: Chicago’s conservative colonia and the remaking of Latino politics in the 1960s and 1970s
The rise of the Latino population in Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s appeared to coincide with the inevitable breakdown of an aging political machine hobbled under the weight of the urban crisis. Instead, that old machine—defined by a patronage system, corruption, and voter intimidation—continued functioning, even as the city’s wards became browner. Through an examination of the relationship between Mayor Richard J. Daley, the political boss o…
Beautiful Urbanism: Gender, Landscape, and Contestation in Latino Chicago's Age of Urban Renewal
On a warm September day in 1953, elegantly dressed couples walked over dust and debris on their way to a dance in the Ashland Auditorium in Chicago. The beautifully ornate three-story structure, supporting a grand clock tower built during the first wave of the Chicago school architecture movement of the 1880s, now stood amid the rubble and dust produced by the nearby wrecking balls sent to clear the streets for new redevelopment projects in the N…
On the Outer Rim of Jazz: Mexican American Jazzmen and the Making of the Modern Pacific Borderlands, 1950–1969
During the 1950s to late 1960s, several Mexican American jazzmen challenged the racialized geographies of modern jazz that appropriated the West Coast as “native” to white jazzmen at the exclusion of Black and Latino musicians. This postwar reinvention by the jazz industry had commercial consequences for Latino jazzmen hoping to work within bebop and hard bop circles, who found that they had been written out of the landscape and even made foreign…
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On the Outer Rim of Jazz: Mexican American Jazzmen and the Making of the Modern Pacific Borderlands, 1950–1969
During the 1950s to late 1960s, several Mexican American jazzmen challenged the racialized geographies of modern jazz that appropriated the West Coast as “native” to white jazzmen at the exclusion of Black and Latino musicians. This postwar reinvention by the jazz industry had commercial consequences for Latino jazzmen hoping to work within bebop and hard bop circles, who found that they had been written out of the landscape and even made foreign…
Beautiful Urbanism: Gender, Landscape, and Contestation in Latino Chicago's Age of Urban Renewal
On a warm September day in 1953, elegantly dressed couples walked over dust and debris on their way to a dance in the Ashland Auditorium in Chicago. The beautifully ornate three-story structure, supporting a grand clock tower built during the first wave of the Chicago school architecture movement of the 1880s, now stood amid the rubble and dust produced by the nearby wrecking balls sent to clear the streets for new redevelopment projects in the N…
A machine in the barrio: Chicago’s conservative colonia and the remaking of Latino politics in the 1960s and 1970s
The rise of the Latino population in Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s appeared to coincide with the inevitable breakdown of an aging political machine hobbled under the weight of the urban crisis. Instead, that old machine—defined by a patronage system, corruption, and voter intimidation—continued functioning, even as the city’s wards became browner. Through an examination of the relationship between Mayor Richard J. Daley, the political boss o…
Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Dance (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works)