From the website: "Immigration has become one of the most politically and socially activating points of discussion in recent years. The US South has become a particular area of interest, and no other state quite as much as North Carolina. Between 1990 and 2000, North Carolina experienced the greatest increase in “Hispanic” population in the country. Latinxs and Latinx immigrants also have settled in states across the US South. A 2013 report by the Pew Center found that the top ten states with the fastest growing Latinx populations were nearly all beneath the Mason-Dixon line. Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee all have experienced more than 150 percent growth in their Latino populations from 2000-2011. Despite these rapid demographic changes, Latino Studies scholarship has remained largely focused on traditional geographies of Latino settlement, like the US Southwest. Emerging scholarship from historians, sociologists, and interdisciplinary scholars demonstrates that the US Southeast represents a generative ground on which to study the historic and dynamic processes of race-making. This body of work recasts and challenges the supposed black-white racial binary that has existed in the US South, showing how the presence of Latinxs has transformed social, spatial, and labor relations between and among Latinxs and others within this geographic space."