Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977.

The article reviews *Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977* by Mirelsie Velázquez, which examines the complex relationship between schooling, education, and Puerto Rican community activism in Chicago from 1940 to 1977. It highlights how Puerto Rican migrants, familiar with U.S. colonial education systems, actively resisted educational inequities and exclusion through grassroots organizing, protests, and the creation of community-run institutions and media. The book situates these struggles within broader contexts of colonialism, migration, racialization, and gender, emphasizing the distinction between formal schooling and expansive educational practices rooted in activism. Velázquez's work contributes to scholarship on Puerto Rican and Latinx Chicago by documenting intergenerational efforts to challenge systemic oppression and reshape educational spaces. This study is valuable for research in Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, Urban History, and Education.