Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans

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Marc Zimmerman is Professor of World Cultures and Literatures in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston. For many years he was professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC). He also taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Nicaragua, McGill University, and the Universidad de Puerto Rico and has been active in Midwest Latino migrant and community organizations for more than three decades. Zimmerman has written and edited several books on general cultural theory as well as on Latin American, Central American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino culture and literature and is currently developing a series on Chicago Latino Cultural Studies. He married Esther Soler from Isabela, Puerto Rico, in 1988, and has since lived as a member of a Puerto Rican family on the island and in the U.S. i-xxx_1-202_Zimm.indd 197 7/14/11 10:43 AM i-xxx_1-202_Zimm.indd 198 7/14/11 10:43 AM Latinos in chicago and the Midwest Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920–40 Edited by Cheryl R. Ganz and Margaret Strobel Moving Beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies Edited by Alberto López Pulido, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, and Carmen Samora¡Marcha! Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement Edited by Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-González Bringing Aztlán to Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art José Gamaliel González, edited and with an introduction by Marc Zimmerman Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla Edited by Mérida M. Rúa Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans Marc Zimmerman i-xxx_1-202_Zimm.indd 199 7/14/11 10:43 AM The University of Illinois Press is a founding member of the Association of American University Presses. Composed in 9.5/14 ITC Officina Serif Std at the University of Illinois Press Manufactured by Thomson-Shore, Inc. University of Illinois Press 1325 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820-6903 www.press.uillinois.edu i-xxx_1-202_Zimm.indd 200 7/14/11 10:43 AM i-xxx_1-202_Zimm.indd 201 7/14/11 10:43 AM i-xxx_1-202_Zimm.indd 202 7/14/11 10:43 AM ...