Latinx Histories of the US South

3 credits · Undergraduate

Latin American origin communities in the South from the early 1900s to the present. Migration experiences, evolution of US immigration policy, urban and rural economies, work and labor organizing, race and regional politics, and civil rights mobilizations. Mexican farm workers in Louisiana and Arkansas, women cigar laborers in Tampa, and rural Latinx communities in today's many meatpacking towns. Demographic patterns, undocumented life-ways, and collective placemaking endeavors of the last 30 years. [3] (US) (CORE C, E) (LE HFA)