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Nuevo South : Latinas/os, Asians, and the remaking of place / Perla M. Guerrero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guerrero, Perla M., author.
- Series:
- Historia USA.
- Historia USA
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Arkansas.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Cuban Americans--Arkansas.
- Cuban Americans.
- Vietnamese Americans--Arkansas.
- Vietnamese Americans.
- Social integration--Arkansas--History--20th century.
- Social integration.
- Refugees--Arkansas.
- Refugees.
- Immigrants--Arkansas--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Immigrants--Social conditions.
- Race relations.
- Social conditions.
- Arkansas--Social conditions.
- Arkansas.
- Arkansas--Race relations.
- Arkansas--Emigration and immigration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Latinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequently defined the region since before the Civil War. Arriving in southern communities as migrants or refugees, Latinas/os and Asians have experienced both begrudging acceptance and prejudice as their presence confronts and troubles local understandings of race and difference--understandings that have deep roots in each community's particular racial history, as well as in national fears and anxieties about race. Nuevo South offers the first comparative study showing how Latinas/os and Asians are transforming race and place in the contemporary South. Integrating political, economic, and social analysis, Perla M. Guerrero examines the reception of Vietnamese, Cubans, and Mexicans in northwestern Arkansas communities that were almost completely white until the mid-1970s. She shows how reactions to these refugees and immigrants ranged from reluctant acceptance of Vietnamese as former US allies to rejection of Cubans as communists, criminals, and homosexuals and Mexicans as "illegal aliens" who were perceived as invaders when they began to establish roots and became more visible in public spaces. Guerrero's research clarifies how social relations are constituted in the labor sphere, particularly the poultry industry, and reveals the legacies of regional history, especially anti-Black violence and racial cleansing. Nuevo South thus helps us to better understand what constitutes the so-called Nuevo South and how historical legacies shape the reception of new people in the region.
- Contents:
- New South to nuevo South : region, labor, and race
- Yellow peril in Arkansas : war, Christianity, and the regional racialization of Vietnamese refugees
- Mariel Cubans as an objectionable burden and illegal aliens
- Latinas/os and polleras : social networks, multisite migration, raids, and upward mobility
- Northwest Arkansas's no. 1 societal concern : illegal aliens, acts of spatial illegality, and political mobilizations
- Conclusion : race, plantation bloc, and nuevo South.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4773-1365-6
- OCLC:
- 1280943732
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