Mexican Chicago's Colonia Hull House: Food, Tourism, and Belonging in the 1930s

摘要

Tourists and Mexicanos alike could leave the Mexican community on the Near West Side of Chicago content that la colonia hull house had met their culinary and cultural expectations. Local migrant marketplaces created and recreated sights, sounds, and smells, as both cultural anchors for the community and tourist attractions for the visitor. This examination of the centrality of culturally distinct Mexican food, restaurants, and other food establishments demonstrates that public shops and spaces were evolving sites of community building, cultural production, and culinary and cultural tourism.