Marcha is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. A city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism, Chicago has been the scene of a precedent-setting immigrant rights mobilization in 2006 and subsequent mobilizations in 2007 and 2008. Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement on national level, these essays plumb an extraordinarily rich set of data regarding recent immigrant rights activities, defining the cause as not just a local quest for citizenship rights, but a panethnic, transnational movement. The result is a timely volume likely to provoke debate and advance the national conversation about immigration in innovative ways. " Marcha brings together a diverse array of complementary analyses of the key actors, ideas, and institutions of the spring 2006 immigrant rights mobilization, the largest single wave of street protests in U.S. history."--Jonathan Fox, author of Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico Amalia Pallares is an associate professor of political science and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century. Nilda Flores-González is an associate professor of sociology and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of School Kids, Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students. ¡Marcha! Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Copyright © 2010 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-252-07716-6 Contents Acknowledgments.............................................................................................................................................................ixTimeline of Immigrant Mobilization..........................................................................................................................................TP1?TP1TC1[Introduction]TC1 xv1. Taking the Public Square: The National Struggle for Immigrant Rights Nilda Flores-González and Elena R. Gutiérrez.............................................32. The Chicago Context Amalia Pallares.....................................................................................................................................373. Competing Narratives on the March: The Challenges of News Media Representations in Chicago Frances R. Aparicio..........................................................654. The Role of the Catholic Church in the Chicago Immigrant Mobilization Stephen P. Davis, Juan R. Martinez, and R. Stephen Warner.........................................795. Hoy Marchamos, Mañana Votamos: It's All Part of the Curriculum Irma M. Olmedo......................................................................................976. Labor Joins la Marcha: How New Immigrant Activists Restored the Meaning of May Day Leon Fink............................................................................1097. Marchando al Futuro: Latino Immigrant Rights Leadership in Chicago Leonard G. Ramírez, José Perales-Ramos, and José Antonio Arellano.....................1238. Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicago: The Newest Agents of Civic Participation Xóchitl Bada....................................................................1469. Permission to March? High School Youth Participation in the Immigrant Rights Movement Sonia Oliva.......................................................................16310. Minutemen and the Subject of Democracy David Bleeden, Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke, and Ralph Cintrón.............................................................17911. Immigrants, Citizens, or Both? The Second Generation in the Immigrant Rights Marches Nilda Flores-González........................................................19812. Representing "La Familia": Family Separation and Immigrant Activism Amalia Pallares....................................................................................21513. Grappling with Latinidad: Puerto Rican Activism in Chicago's Pro–Immigrant Rights Movement Michael Rodríguez Muñiz.....................................237List of Contributors........................................................................................................................................................259Index.......................................................................................................................................................................263 Introduction In 2006, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest a congressional bill that would have criminalized undocumented immigrants and those who assisted them. More than 250 massive marches, or megamarches, as they