Juan Crow and the Erasure of Blackness in the Latina/o South

@article{Mrquez2019JuanCA,  title={Juan Crow and the Erasure of Blackness in the Latina/o South},  author={Cecilia M{\'a}rquez},  journal={Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas},  year={2019},  volume={16},  pages={79 - 85},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:204424763}}
Abstract:This essay examines the use of the term Juan Crow in protests against anti-immigrant legislation in the South. Using the passage of Alabama's 2011 HB 56 law and the subsequent resistance to the legislation, this essay considers the limits of Juan Crow as a framework for immigrant justice. More specifically, it argues that the term erases the historical and contemporary presence of Afro-Latinos/as in the South and that those deploying Juan Crow often inadvertently stage Jim Crow as a… 

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