CHAPTER 1 New South to Nuevo South: Region, Labor, and Race

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1 New South to Nuevo South: Region, Labor, and Race 27
7. CHAPTER 2 Yellow Peril in Arkansas: War, Christianity, and the Regional Racialization of Vietnamese Refugees 49
8. CHAPTER 3 Mariel Cubans as an “Objectionable Burden” and “Illegal Aliens” 74
9. CHAPTER 4 Latinas/os and Polleras : Social Networks, Multisite Migration, Raids, and Upward Mobility 112
10. CHAPTER 5 “Northwest Arkansas’s No. 1 Societal Concern”: “Illegal Aliens,” Acts of Spatial Illegality, and Political Mobilizations 152
11. Conclusion: Race, Plantation Bloc, and Nuevo South 177
12. Notes 183
13. Bibliography 215
14. Index 229