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Title: Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4696-249
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Author: Julie M. Weise
Abstract: 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visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points.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. Rooted in U.S. and Mexican archival research, oral history interviews, and family photographs, Corazón 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.
Primary URL: https://worldcat.org/title/1086535411
Primary URL Description: Corazón de Dixie on worldcat.org website.
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469624976_weise
Secondary URL Description: OA version of Corazón de Dixie on JSTOR
URL 3: https://www.amazon.com/Coraz%C3%B3n-Dixie-Mexicanos-Borderlands-History-ebook/dp/B00W1VH8Q0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1443723371&sr=1-1&keywords=corazon+de+dixie
URL 3 Description: OA version of Corazón de Dixie on Amazon Kindle
Type: Single author monograph

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