Nuevo South : : Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place / / Perla M. Guerrero.

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 be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 New South to Nuevo South: Region, Labor, and Race
  • CHAPTER 2 Yellow Peril in Arkansas: War, Christianity, and the Regional Racialization of Vietnamese Refugees
  • CHAPTER 3 Mariel Cubans as an “Objectionable Burden” and “Illegal Aliens”
  • CHAPTER 4 Latinas/os and Polleras : Social Networks, Multisite Migration, Raids, and Upward Mobility
  • CHAPTER 5 “Northwest Arkansas’s No. 1 Societal Concern”: “Illegal Aliens,” Acts of Spatial Illegality, and Political Mobilizations
  • Conclusion: Race, Plantation Bloc, and Nuevo South
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index