Latino Roots in Southern Soil

CCIS/CSIM/BIMI/GMC Seminar December 13, 2024
Author: Erica Dobbs & Peggy Levitt
Drawn from her award-winning book Making the Latino South, this talk will trace the long history of Latinos in the South and show why being Latino in the South was unlike being Latino anywhere else in the country. Moving from the 1940s to the 2010s, it will show how non-Black Latinos transformed from being embraced by white southerners in the era of Jim Crow segregation to being targeted by legislative campaigns designed to make life unhospitable for the hundreds of thousands of Latino people who had made the region home since the 1990s. Those interested in history, politics, immigration, and race in the region will be eager to read Márquez’s compelling retelling of Latino History from the vantage point of the South.