Publication Date:
2024-03-29
Description:
When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points. However, as this book is the first to comprehensively document, Mexicans and Mexican Americans have a long history of migration to the U.S. South. Corazon de Dixie recounts the untold histories of Mexicanos' migrations to New Orleans, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina as far back as 1910. It follows Mexicanos into the heart of Dixie, where they navigated the Jim Crow system, cultivated community in the cotton fields, purposefully appealed for help to the Mexican government, shaped the southern conservative imagination in the wake of the civil rights movement, and embraced their own version of suburban living at the turn of the twenty-first century. Rooted in U.S. and Mexican archival research, oral history interviews, and family photographs, Corazon de Dixie unearths not just the facts of Mexicanos' long-standing presence in the U.S. South but also their own expectations, strategies, and dreams.
Keywords:
Latinos in the South
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Mississippi Delta
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Arkansas Delta
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New Orleans
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Vidalia, Georgia
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Mexican Immigration
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Racialization
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Mississippi Hot Tamales
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Bracero Program in Arkansas
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anti-immigrant movements
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whiteness
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black-Mexican relations
;
Hispanics in the South
;
black-Latino relations
;
black-Hispanic relations
;
immigration to the U.S. South
;
Hispanics in Mississippi
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Hispanics in Arkansas/ Hispanics in Georgia
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Hispanics in North Carolina
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Hispanics in New Orleans
;
Hispanics in Louisiana
;
Latinos in Mississippi
;
Latinos in Arkansas/ Latinos in Georgia
;
Latinos in North Carolina
;
Latinos in New Orleans
;
Latinos in Louisiana
;
H-2A workers
;
Mexican consuls
;
Mexicans in Mississippi
;
Mexicans in Arkansas/
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration
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thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
Language:
English
Format:
image/jpeg
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