Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 . By Julie M. Weise

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Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 . David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. By Julie M. Weise. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xiii + 344 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50, paper.) While ethnic Mexicans appear as relative newcomers in current political and historical descriptions of the American South, Julie M. Weise’s sweeping examination of Mexican people in the region forces readers to rethink their ideas of Southern history, labor history, and the history of race in America. Mexican people appear everywhere in the South but, more importantly in Weise’s treatment, not as a monolithic, homogenous community. Rather a diverse set of experiences unified by their connections to the Mexican state, changing labor and racial structures and the need to build community … raramos{at}uh.edu