Nuevo South: Latinas/Os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place

by Perla M Guerrero and Perla M. Guerrero

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147731444X
• ISBN13: 9781477314449
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"