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Latinos and the U.S. South
José María Mantero

0-313-34510-4/978-0-313-34510-4

Description
The manner in which communities in the U.S. South are accomodating the most recent immigrants from Latin American nations forecasts the impact that these populations will have on other parts of the United States that are historically nontraditional areas of Latin American immigration.

Reviews:
-"As more and more Latinos move to the U.S. South for employment, it makes sense to understand the culture both of Latino countries and the South. This book does a great job of discussing the history and culture of these two separate entities. The author, an associate professor of Spanish… has a keen mind and sees things other would miss… Highly recommended." —MultiCultural Review
-"Recently, and rapidly, increasing numbers of Latinos in the US South have caught the attention of academics. There has been a flush of studies investigating, for example, xenophobia in rural towns or the rise of births attributed to Latinos working to rebuild post-Katrina New Orleans. Bucking the trend, Mantero (Spanish, Xavier Univ.), the son ofSpanish immigrants who moved to Georgia from Michigan when he was a child, explores centuries of Latin America's and the US South's parallel histories to contextualize current demographic changes historically, politically, and economically, demonstrating that Latino culture has deep, if largely forgotten, roots in this region. Mantero's project provides a unique perspective on, and an important challenge to, dominant narratives about Latino immigration in the US South. The introduction is engaging and personal, but the winding narrative, which draws heavily on secondary sources and includes many obscure details, is difficult to follow and poorly organized. Preparing for this book, Mantero spent time on the road, visiting Latinos of varied origins and socioeconomic status living across the South. Theseinterviews are an invaluable contribution to later chapters, and should have been the core of a shorter, better-edited study. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." —CHOICE
About the Author
José María Mantero is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Xavier University. He has published a monograph on the Argentinean writer Marta Traba, La voz política de Marta Traba (1995), an anthology of recent Nicaraguan poetry, Neuvos poetas de Nicaragua (Antología) (2004), and numerous journal articles on Latin American literature that center on the creation of a national identity through poetry and autobiographical texts such as testimonials or memoirs. He has presented at conferences in the United States, Spain, Nicaragua, Panama, Belize, and Guatemala, and currently continues to research Spanish and Latin American literature, particularly texts that have contributed to the mythification and the formation of a national identity.
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