Welcome to the Lectures in History podcast, where we bring the classroom to you, featuring lectures from some of the nation's top professors.

This week, we're exploring Latino migration. Duke University professor Cecilia Marquez guides us through the 20th and 21st centuries,

highlighting the migration trends that shaped American culture,

transformed communities, and powered economic development.

Professor Marquez is the author of a recent book,

Making the Latino South,

which challenges the commonly held beliefs

about the origins of Latino identity

and the power of region and shaping race.

More after this.

Hi, everyone. So, you know, we've been talking a little bit in class about this idea about

placemakers and making place and making community. And we've talked about a few places.

We've talked about California. We've talked a little bit by Miami a little about New York and so today

we're going to think about the South I mean a lot of the work that we're doing in

our class is about the history of Latinos in the South and the work that we're

doing about the history of Latinos here in Durham and so we're going to talk a little

bit about that that's what our reading was about today the sort of more recent history of Latinos in the South.

So what are we going to do today? We're going to review some of what we've already learned, like sort of remind ourselves what we knew about the history of Latinos in the South prior to the 1970s and 80s. We're going to talk about how and why Latinos

arrive in the South. That's something really important I want us to understand by the end

of today. We've talked a lot about migration and how and why you migrate shapes what

that means for what you experience. And I want to talk a little bit about what that means

for the South. And then I will end by talking about Latinos as placemakers here in the Southeast so as we get

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