04914nam 22008411 450 991088601990332120220816032704.01-4773-1365-610.7560/313640(CKB)4340000000208808(MiAaPQ)EBC5105705(DE-B1597)588052(DE-B1597)9781477313657(EXLCZ)99434000000020880820171117h20172017 uy 0engurcnu|||uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNuevo South Latinas/os, Asians, and the remaking of place /Perla M. GuerreroAustin, [Texas] :University of Texas Press,2017.©20171 online resource (255 pages) illustrations, mapHistoria USAIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.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.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.Historia USA.Hispanic AmericansArkansasCuban AmericansArkansasVietnamese AmericansArkansasSocial integrationArkansasHistory20th centuryRefugeesArkansasImmigrantsArkansasSocial conditionsCuban Americansfast(OCoLC)fst00884777Emigration and immigrationfast(OCoLC)fst00908690Hispanic Americansfast(OCoLC)fst00957523ImmigrantsSocial conditionsfast(OCoLC)fst00967782Race relationsfast(OCoLC)fst01086509Refugeesfast(OCoLC)fst01092797Social conditionsfast(OCoLC)fst01919811Social integrationfast(OCoLC)fst01122550Vietnamese Americansfast(OCoLC)fst01166663ArkansasSocial conditionsArkansasRace relationsArkansasEmigration and immigrationArkansasfastHispanic AmericansCuban AmericansVietnamese AmericansSocial integrationHistoryRefugeesImmigrantsSocial conditions.Cuban Americans.Emigration and immigration.Hispanic Americans.ImmigrantsSocial conditions.Race relations.Refugees.Social conditions.Social integration.Vietnamese Americans.305.8009767Guerrero Perla M.1771171MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQAzTeSBOOK9910886019903321Nuevo South4256847UNINA