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

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visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points.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

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Place / Publishing House:Chapel Hill : : The University of North Carolina Press,, [2015]
Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2016
©[2015]
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Physical Description:1 online resource (359 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of 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.