The history of the southern United States is so deeply defined by racial conflicts between whites and blacks that the social, political and economic importance of Latinos, a population that has grown dramatically in the region over the last seven decades, has often been overlooked.  Cecilia Márquez, assistant professor of Latino Studies at Duke University, has added to a small but growing body of historical study with an examination of the changing position of Latinos in the U.S. Southeast between 1945 and 2010, with particular focus on Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.  Márquez describes a process of racialization when “non-Black latino Read more