Latinos and the U.S. South /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mantero, José María, 1964-
Imprint:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Description:	xxvi, 283 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Hispanic Americans -- Southern States. Latin Americans -- Southern States. Hispanic Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions. Latin Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions. Immigrants -- Southern States -- Social conditions. Alien labor, Latin American -- Southern States. Emigration and immigration. Foreign workers, Latin American. Hispanic Americans. Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions. Immigrants -- Social conditions. Latin Americans. Latin Americans -- Social conditions. Latin America -- Emigration and immigration. Southern States -- Emigration and immigration. Latin America. Southern States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7136609

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Varying Form of Title:	Latinos and the US South
ISBN:	9780313345104 (alk. paper) 0313345104 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-278) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
1. Histories
First Confluences: Toward Distinct Shared Histories and Colonialisms Identity, the U.S. South, and Latin America: Myth, Construction, Imposition
U.S. Southern "Distinctiveness" and the Other
2. The United States, the U.S. South, Latinos, and Beyond: Current Initial Confluences
3. The Immigration of Latinos: The Diaspora Within
4. The River's Edge: The Mexican Border and the Ohio River
Borders and Rivers
The Ohio River
The Rio Grande and the U.S.-Mexican Border
Migration: Ohio River and the Rio Grande
Migration as Resistance and Liberation
The Perceived and Established Lawlessness of Movement and Migration: Yesterday's Fugitive Slaves and Today's Latinos
Preparation and Motivation for Migration. The Crossing
The Consequences
5. Economics, the U.S. South, Latinos, and the Cultural Dollar
6. Politics: Caudillos and Good Ole Boys
7. Literature as Mirror
Flannery O'Connor and "The Displaced Person": Immigration
Now, Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever
Carlos Fuentes and The Crystal Frontier: Movement and Passage
8. What Lies Beneath: Music and Land in the U.S. South and Latin America
9. Religion: An Equal Praise
10. Tensions
Language
Latinos and African Americans
11. The Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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