2016 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
2015 CLR James Award, Working-Class Studies Association
Honorable Mention, 2015 Theodore Saloutos Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Honorable Mention, 2016 Deep South Book Prize, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
Corazón de Dixie is the first and most sweeping history of Mexican and Mexican American lives in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina since the early twentieth century—showing how Latinos are not recent interlopers in the U.S. South, but rather, helped make the region what it is today.
The Corazón de Dixie e-book is free forever thanks to the NEH Open Book Program. Download at your favorite e-book provider or read on the UNC Press website
A complete teaching resource and collection of reviews are available at http://corazondedixie.org
Praise
“The stories in this history are vital as activists, both black and brown, continue to fight for a more equitable U.S. South.” —Perla Guerrero, author of Nuevo South: Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place
“Corazón de Dixie expands the scope of borderland studies and establishes a foundation that scholars will build upon for years.” —Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America
“Innovative in its conceptual and historical framework, its methodology and its conclusions.” —CLR James Award prize committee, Working-Class Studies Association
“A fresh perspective on a region and a time that we thought we understood.” —Merle Curti Award prize committee, Organization of American Historians
In the News
Interview on Mexican immigration to Georgia and the U.S. South, Georgia Public Broadcasting’s On Second Thought (2016). Starts at minute 30.
Interview on Mexican immigration in the South and the U.S., WUNC radio’s The State of Things, Chapel Hill (2015).
Atlanta History Center, in conversation with consul of Mexico in Atlanta https://youtu.be/gRFZnHaQuUg?si=kTZZMzVtcH1-VIc-
“Mexican Migration to the Deep South,” by Beth English, Working History: Podcast of the Southern Labor Studies Association, December 7, 2016
Interviewed in, “Exploring the Corazón de Dixie with Julie M. Weise,” by Karen L. Cox, Pop South: Reflections on the South in Popular Culture blog, 2016.
“African Americans and Immigrants’ Rights in the Trump Era,” UNC Press Blog #immigration roundtable, April 6, 2017.
“2016: The year nativism conquered the South,” Immigration and Ethnic History Society blog, December 29, 2016.