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As the number of Latinos in the United States (15.8 percent of the population) surpasses that of African Americans, scholars have accelerated the debate over how the new largest racial/ethnic minority will influence the traditional black/white color line.1 The nuevo south has become a major destination for immigrants since the 1980s.2Three developments have shaped this transformation: global economic restructuring, which created high demand for low-wage workers in the South; mass immigration of Latinos; and immigration laws and policies at federal and local levels. This essay examines the shift more closely, looking at how Latino immigration is transforming categories of race in the Atlanta metro area.
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Odem, M., Browne, I. (2014). Racializing Latinos in the Nuevo South. In: Halter, M., Johnson, M.S., Viens, K.P., Wright, C.E. (eds) What’s New about the “New” Immigration?. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137483850_3
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