ACC Library: History of Latinx Immigration in the Southeastern United States

Latinx immigration to the Southeastern United States is not a new phenomenon. Starting in the 1910s latinx communities navigated the Jim Crow system of the south, cultivated strong community relationships, and carried these thriving communities into the 21st century. Join the Heritage Room in welcoming: Julie Weise, author of Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910;  Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory Department of History; and moderator Oscar Chamosa University of Georgia Department of History, and co-sponsoring organization Athens Historical Society in a discussion of the culture and history of latinx immigration to the south. 

This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email. Registration is required, at the ACC Library web site https://athenslibrary.libcal.com/event/7808988.

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez (B.A., University of Georgia, 2014; M.A., Yale University, 2017; Ph.D., Yale University, 2020).

Yami Rodriguez is a historian of U.S. Latinx communities whose work engages questions of race, ethnicity, labor, and migration. With a regional focus on the U.S. South, Rodriguez’s scholarship examines Latinx histories alongside Latinx political, economic, and cultural place-making practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her current manuscript project, “Mexican Atlanta: Migrant Place-Making in the Latinx South,” traces the history of Metro Atlanta’s ethnic Mexican community formation with attention to the region’s longer Latinx and migrant histories since the mid-twentieth century. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Emory University.

Julie M. Weise is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon and author of Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910, which won the Merle Curti Award for the best book in U.S. social history from the Organization of American Historians, among other honors. The book recounts the histories of recent and historical Mexican communities, including those in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas in the first half of the twentieth century and Georgia and North Carolina in the second half. More information and primary sources are available at http://corazondedixie.org. In addition, Dr. Weise is co-producer of a podcast about this history, Nuestro South. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post and has been interviewed by news outlets including Univision.com and NPR.