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IMPACTING ARKANSAS:
VIETNAMESE AND CUBAN REFUGEES AND LATINA/O IMMIGRANTS,
1975-2005
by
Perla M. Guerrero
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
December 2010
Copyright 2010 Perla M. Guerrero
Object Description
| Title | Impacting Arkansas: Vietnamese and Cuban refugees and Latina/o immigrants, 1975-2005 |
| Author | Guerrero, Perla M. |
| Author email | pguerrer@usc.edu; perlalaguerrera@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 22 Sep. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-09-22 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sanchez, George J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Pulido, Laura Gilmore, Ruth W. Seip, Terry |
| Abstract | “Impacting Arkansas: Vietnamese and Cuban Refugees and Latina/o Immigrants, 1975-2005,” considers the effects of the arrival of refugees from Vietnam and Cuba and Latina/o immigrants (mainly ethnic Mexicans) to the U.S. South. I use newspaper articles and state and federal archives to analyze how refugees and immigrants were racialized in the state. I examine each group’s racialization with attention to the historical moment in which they entered homogenously White, Protestant, and Republican northwest Arkansas and I find that contextual forces such as local history, U.S. foreign policy, national political context, social class status, and dominant racial discourses articulated in ways that drew on long-standing ideologies.; The racialization of Vietnamese refugees in 1975 was affected by their placement in Arkansas at the end of the Vietnam War, in a moment when the nation was dealing with having lost an exceptionally contentious episode within the ongoing Cold War. Vietnamese were cautiously welcomed with a rhetoric of American values which opposed communism and had to make good on promises to help the United States’ former allies. Their reception was further shaped by their status as largely professionals, college-educated, and English-proficient, nonetheless, fear of "yellow peril" promulgated. In contrast to the Vietnamese, Cuban refugees arrived in 1980 amidst national and international accusations that Fidel Castro’s government had unleashed criminals, prostitutes, and the mentally ill. Given these circumstances, and that this cohort of Cuban refugees was largely working-class, gay, and of African descent, they were constructed as criminal and deviant and Arkansans and their politicians mobilized to remove them from the state. Latinas/os (immigrants and U.S.-born), particularly ethnic Mexicans, began arriving in the early 1990s during a significant economic regional reorganization which provided many of them with low-wage work. They were all quickly constructed as "illegal aliens" with their behaviors in public and private spaces severely condemned and policed.; The history and relationship between the State of Arkansas and the federal government also shaped the reception of the groups in important ways as local (city and state) versus extra-local (federal agencies) control became central to the debates over the changes occurring in northwest Arkansas. Generally, there were hostile reactions toward Vietnamese, Cubans, and ethnic Mexicans because Arkansans deemed the new groups a threat to their community, their way of life, and their country. |
| Keyword | illegality; racialization; race; space; place; ethnic Mexicans; immigration |
| Geographic subject (state) | Arkansas |
| Coverage date | 1975/2005 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3467 |
| Rights | Guerrero, Perla M. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Guerrero-4108 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Guerrero-4108.pdf |
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| Full text | IMPACTING ARKANSAS: VIETNAMESE AND CUBAN REFUGEES AND LATINA/O IMMIGRANTS, 1975-2005 by Perla M. Guerrero A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Perla M. Guerrero |
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