Corazón de Dixie Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 / Julie M. Weise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weise, Julie M., author.

Series:

David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans.

Mexicans--Southern States--Social conditions.

Mexicans.

Mexican Americans--Southern States--21st century.

Mexicans--Southern States--21st century.

Mexican Americans--Southern States--20th century.

Mexicans--Southern States--20th century.

Southern States--Race relations--20th century.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

2015.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points.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. Corazón 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

Contents:

Mexicans as Europeans: Mexican nationalism and assimilation in New Orleans, 1910-1939

Different from that which is intended for the colored race: Mexicans and Mexico in Jim Crow Mississippi, 1918-1939

Citizens of somewhere: braceros, Tejanos, Dixiecrats, and Mexican bureaucrats in the Arkansas delta, 1939-1964

Mexicano stories and rural white narratives: creating pro-immigrant conservatism in rural Georgia, 1965-2004

Skyscrapers and chicken plants: Mexicans, Latinos, and exurban immigration politics in greater Charlotte, 1990-2012

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890844200

9798890844217

9781469624983

1469624982

OCLC:

923821754

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access