Sociology Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
Latino Studies
Keywords
Salvadorans, Immigration, Boundary Work, Labor, Agency, Whiteness
Abstract
Diverse sites in the US South are being transformed by "new Latino immigration." Rather than being a homogeneous process, experiences of migrant settlement are shaped by the racialized social worlds of particular historical social communities -- and may in turn transform local racial formations (Winders, 2005). In one small town in rural Arkansas, Latina and Latino migrants perform boundary work (Lamont, 2000; Hartigan, 2010), constructing their identities as "good" workers and neighbors. Although migrants assert belonging and dignity by framing themselves as "better than White trash," nonetheless this belonging is predicated on the reproduction of racial and class hierarchy as well as conformity to the structural demands of neoliberal capitalism.
First Page
81
Last Page
106
Volume
10
Issue
1-2
Repository Citation
Hallett, Miranda Cady, ""Better Than White Trash": Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas" (2012). Sociology Faculty Scholarship. 2.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/socio_fac/2
Original Citation
Hallett, Miranda Cady. "'Better Than White Trash': Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas." Latino Studies 10:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2012): 81-106.
DOI
10.1057/1st.2012.14
Version
Post-Print
Peer Reviewed
1
Comments
Published article title: "'Better Than White Trash': Race, Class, and Moral Capital in the New Latino South."
Part of a special edition entitled: Latinas and Latinos in the US South: Immigration, Integration, and Identity (edited by Suzanne Oboler)