{"id":56129,"date":"2024-05-08T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?p=56129"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:10:48","slug":"cecilia-marquez-on-making-the-latino-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/cecilia-marquez-on-making-the-latino-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia M\u00e1rquez on \u201cMaking the Latino South\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cecilia M\u00e1rquez joins us this week to talk about her new book, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation<\/em><\/a>, published by The University of North Carolina Press. Above all, we discussed the production of Latino identity in relation to Blackness. M\u00e1rquez argues that, in the South, Latinos are either Black or non-Black\u2014not Black or white, mind you, but Black or non-Black. It was an important distinction not only during the Jim Crow era, but also today given our ongoing debates about Latino racial identity. M\u00e1rquez\u2019s broad arguments come to life through fascinating characters and places like the South of the Border rest stop, just on the South Carolina side of the North\/South Carolina divide. Beyond the subjects in Making the Latino South<\/em>, we talk in general about some of the most important themes preoccupying Latino historians today. M\u00e1rquez is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History<\/a> at Duke University. She\u2019s currently working on her next book, about the Latino Far Right in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.<\/p>\n

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