Excepting/accepting the South: New geographies of Latino migration, new directions in Latino studies

Winders, Jamie; Smith, Barbara

doi:10.1057/lst.2012.17

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“…Since the 2000 Census, research on intergroup relations between Latina/o and African Americans has exploded, particularly research focused on the Southeast [1,3,6,[8][9][10][11]14,18,[20][21][22]40,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. Research on coalition building centers around identifying key factors that affect a coalition's success or failure.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars have noted the racialization of Latinas/os in the South as an important area for research [10,19,22,36,40,59]; however, how the ongoing influx of Latina/o immigrants will affect the entrenched black/white racial binary in that region is still up for debate [3,11,42,43,47]. The influx of Latinas/os into the southeastern U.S. has forced scholars to reconceptualize how the racial identities of Latinas/os are constructed within this highly polarized region [10,17,19,22,36,40,59].…”

Section: Racial Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The influx of Latinas/os into the southeastern U.S. has forced scholars to reconceptualize how the racial identities of Latinas/os are constructed within this highly polarized region [10,17,19,22,36,40,59]. Scholarship in this area reveals the tendency to utilize the same rigid white racial frame applied to African Americans in order to racialize Latinas/os, particularly as their numbers continued to grow [37,38].…”

Section: Racial Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ways in which Latinas/os are racialized, as well as "regional and local racial grammar" have potential consequences for black-brown relations [22] (p. 232). The empirical work in this area is just beginning to emerge, in part because the dynamics are being documented as they happen [22] (p. 233).…”

Section: Racial Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The empirical work in this area is just beginning to emerge, in part because the dynamics are being documented as they happen [22] (p. 233). The scholarship that is available yields mixed results.…”

Section: Racial Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

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How Can I Trust You if You Don’t Know Who You Are? The Consequences of a Fluid Identity on Cross-Racial Organizing between African American Women and Latinas in Atlanta

González

2016

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Scholarship in the area of cross-racial organizing between Latina/o and African Americans has increased substantially over the past ten years. Within that literature, scholars have identified many reasons why cross-racial coalitions both succeed and fail. Among the factors most often cited is the issue of trust. Despite the recognition of the crucial role trust plays in cross-racial organizing, little attention has been paid to what contributes to actually building trust between African Americans and Latina/o. I argue that one factor contributing to the distrust of Latinas among African American women involved in cross-racial organizing in Atlanta is the perceived discrepancy between Latinas' own asserted identity and the identity assigned to them by African American women organizers. Using data gathered from six years of participant observation and forty interviews conducted with African American women and Latinas organizing in Georgia, I discuss the consequences of identity construction for cross-racial organizing. I find that within cross-racial organizing spaces in Atlanta, perceived racial identities are used by African American women as proxies for determining Latina organizers' commitment to social justice and, correspondingly, how much individual Latinas can be trusted. Specifically, I find that African American respondents view Latina identity as optional and potentially white. Latina respondents, on the other hand, assert strong identities and contend that their perceived "optional" identities are a function of what Anzaldúa calls a mestiza consciousness or the straddeling of multiple identities. I argue that understanding how these identities are assigned and asserted by Latinas and African American women is a crucial and often-overlooked component to building trust, and by extension, to building sustainable cross-racial coalitions.

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