The book Steel Barrio- The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago 1915-1940 “this book investigates the years between the World Wars, the period that witnessed the first, massive influx of Mexicans into Chicago”. The author Michael Innis-Jimenez makes several points to illustrate how community members used the discrimination against them, a sojourner attitude, mutual aid organizations, organized sports and other groups to bring together a diverse community of Mexicans and Mexican American, being literate or not, ways to change their physical and cultural environment in order to survive. The book has eight chapters that focuses on migration, however I’m going to be discussing chapter seven- The Great Depression.
