Associate Professor Gabriela Arredondo’s 2008 publication, Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-1939 for the University of Illinois Press, builds on previous studies of Mexicans in the United States while challenging static definitions of “American” and underlying assumptions of assimilation. Arredondo contends that because of the revolutionary context from which they came, Mexicans in Chicago between 1916 and 1939 were not just another ethnic group working to be assimilated into a city with a long history of incorporating newcomers.