by azle@uoregon.edu | May 7, 2019 | Conservatives
Since I put the finishing touches on Corazón de Dixie in 2015, Trumpism and its anti-immigrant rhetoric have overtaken the Republican Party. The term “pro-immigrant conservatism”—a phenomenon I documented in my chapter on rural Georgia from the 1960s-80s—today seems...
by azle@uoregon.edu | Jan 19, 2018 | New Research
There is some fabulous new research coming out now on the histories of Latinxs in the U.S. South. For example, I just read, “Brokering Modernity: The World’s Fair, Mexico’s Eighth Cavalry Band, and the Borderlands of New Orleans Music, 1884-1910.” This dissertation by...
by azle@uoregon.edu | Jan 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
In his inaugural address today, Donald Trump promised to “bring back our borders.” The refrain is inaccurate (U.S. borders were not seriously policed until the 1990s and are more policed today than ever before) but it is familiar. Lately this line has...
by azle@uoregon.edu | Mar 29, 2016 | Advocacy
All the way back to the proclamation of the “New South” in the late 19th century, Southern business leaders have tried to project an image of their region’s openness and progressiveness to attract and keep investment, while a range of other constituencies, most...
by azle@uoregon.edu | Feb 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
