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Making “The International City” Home
2010
Overview
Lorain, Ohio, along Lake Erie thirty miles west of Cleveland, is at present the home of 14,000 Latinos, about twenty percent of the population in a city of 68,000. Puerto Ricans are the largest majority, with over 10,000 citizens, while almost 2,500 residents are identified as Mexicans. African Americans currently represent an additional fifteen percent of the city population. Latinos first settled in “The International City” (as Lorain city boosters dubbed it) in significant numbers in the 1920s when ethnic Mexicans migrated from Texas and other borderlands regions. Drawn by jobs in the steel industry, 1,300 men, according to one
Publisher
NYU Press
ISBN
081479128X, 9780814791288
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