...Perla M. Guerrero Copyright © 2019 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2019 When I attended my first academic conferences as a graduate student between 2003 and 2005, people reacted with bewilderment when I told them I wanted to study Latinas/os in the US South. Then they reacted...

... in the region. Copyright © 2019 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2019 Latina labor race Florida US South Around 2008, the term Juan Crow began popping up at rallies and in editorials protesting anti- immigrant legislation. It was mostly in the South but also made appearances...

...Sarah McNamara This essay blends the biographies of three Latinas — Luisa Capetillo, Luisa Moreno, and Viridiana Martínez — who combated social and economic injustice in the US South. By uniting the lives of these women, who lived during distinct eras and never physically met, this piece...

...Yalidy Matos “A Legacy of Exclusion” briefly traces the historical migration of Latinas/os to the US South, countering the myth that the migration of Latinas/os to the region is new. Additionally, the piece argues that the exclusion Latinas/os face in the region is a continuation of racist policies...

...Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez As part of the New Directions of the Latina/o South forum, this essay centers southern Latina/o cultural productions to examine practices of representation through Kap G’s rap texts. As the first popular Mexican American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia, Kap G lyrically...

... slaughterhouse located in a small town in North Carolina. On top of that, she spent countless hours socializing with her coworkers, talking about love and sex and work and family outside the factory. In addition, she conducted twenty-five in-depth interviews with Latina/o and African American workers. Based...

... Association 2022 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, radical Latina/o activists across the United States pioneered a bold new strategy to bring visibility to their often-localized justice struggles: the occupation of churches. The targets ranged from flourishing newly built cathedrals to crumbling...

... essays discuss the history of Latina/o labor, the volume offers an overwhelmingly black-white version of southern history. In the last thirty years, the history of Latina/o immigration has been integral to the southern economy, and with new attention on southern borders and heated political debate about...

... principles. Third, a roundtable among five Latina labor specialists in southern US settings points to sources of current agitation as well as inspiration in the field. Panel convener Perla M. Guerrero recalls that when she left Arkansas, where she had grown up, for graduate school some fifteen years ago...

...: Routledge, 1992). 6. Kristen Hill Maher, “‘Natural Mothers’ for Sale: The Construction of Latina Immigrant Identity in Domestic Service Labor Markets,” in Immigrants in America: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Immigrant Experience in a Global Era, ed. Colin...

... sociales y política: La década de los ochenta en América Latina (Mex- ico D.F.: Siglo XXI, 1995). 5. Alain Touraine, América Latina: Política y sociedad (Madrid: Espasa-­Calpe, 1989). 6. Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Mauricio García Villegas, eds., Emancipación social y violencia en Colombia...

... . References Drinot Paulo . The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . Ferreras Norberto Osvaldo . “ La misión de Stephen Lawford Childs de 1934: La relación entre la OIT y el Cono Sur .” In América Latina y la...

...Perla M. Guerrero This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students working on the borderlands, Mexican history, US Southwest, Chicana/Chicano and Latina/Latino history, gender studies, and relational race and ethnicity. Castillo-Muñoz covers a lot of ground. She organized...

.... The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice understood women's labor struggles against textile sweatshops “to be part of the environmental movement” and forged powerful coalitions of Latina garment workers in Fuerza Unida and Asian Immigrant Women Advocates that won important victories...

...- ciation for the Study of African American Life and History, the Association of Afri- can American Museums, the Berkshire Conference in Women’s History, the Immi- gration and Ethnic History Society, the Labor Research and Action Network, and the Latina/o Studies Conference, Labor...

... immigration to Chicago and in the process develops a rich picture of the culture these workers created in a rather brutal industrial environment, the South Side steel plants and the neighborhoods that grew up around them. While Latina/o history has mushroomed over the past generation, with a particular...

..., the engineer, and lucky wildcatter to the blue-collar rigger, an unheralded legion of receptionists, telephone operators, stenographers, typists, and personal secretaries—white except for a few Latinas—oversaw a mountain of leases, land records, and contracts, as well as daily communications. Often college...

... recognizes that importing workers is an imperfect solution. They don’t always lower wages because they concentrate in jobs that the US-born usually reject. More important, perhaps, Latina/os especially pose a double political problem: they tend to be class conscious, and citizens among them tend to vote...

... to have contracts and meetings translated, and then elected María Elena Durazo as the first Latina to head a major union local in Los Angeles. Durazo (now a state senator) reoriented the union toward membership participation and mounted a series of successful confrontations with employers. To support...

... – 1931): Primera clandestinidad y ‘Bolchevización’ Estaliniana,” Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia 67, no. 111 (2003): 385  –  436, and “Crisis e ilusión revolucionaria. Partido Comunista de Chile y Comintern, 1931–1934,” in El comunismo: otras miradas desde América Latina, ed. Elvira...