ABSTRACT

Landscapes, like the people who inhabit them, are complicated and wonderfully diverse. So it is for the Midwestern neighborhoods of Mexican-Americans. The three landscape types we've examined so far are the most apparent and thus the easiest to study, possibly because they are the most abundant. However, in the course of this research I found traces of other kinds of neighborhoods, other landscapes, associated with Mexican-American communities in the Midwest. This chapter presents these other four landscape types: Evolved Sugar Beet Camps, Evolved Railroad Camps, Postwar Industrial Suburbs, and Global Service Cities.