ebooks The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Emily Clark in History

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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visible in the 1990s; observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points.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. Corazon 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; Corazon 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.