Making the Latino South
A History of Racial Formation
By Cecilia Márquez
284 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 19 halftones, 1 table, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7605-0
Published: September 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7604-3
Published: September 2023 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-7606-7
Published: August 2023
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Cecilia Márquez guides readers through time and place from Washington, DC, to the deep South, tracing how non-Black Latino people moved through the region’s evolving racial landscape. In considering Latino presence in the South’s schools, its workplaces, its tourist destinations, and more, Márquez tells a challenging story of race-making that defies easy narratives of progressive change and promises to reshape the broader American histories of Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, immigration, work, and culture.
About the Author
Cecilia Márquez is Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.
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"Marquez's field-changing history of the US South is the first to show us why racial diversity within categories such as 'Mexican' or 'Latino' matters for the region’s past and future."—Julie Weise, University of Oregon
"It is common to say that Latinos occupy every point along a racial spectrum from Black to White, but Cecilia Márquez brilliantly shows how the racial identity of Latinos is constructed in relation to these and other identities. The result is a stunningly original work on race in a storied region, with Latinos at the center."--Geraldo L. Cadava, Northwestern University