Latino migration to the United States has a long and documented history, but the history of Mexicans and Mexican Americans migrating specifically to Southern states is rarely told.

Julie Weise, assistant professor of history at the UO, and Natalia Molina, professor of history and urban studies at University of California, San Diego, will be discussing the history of Latino migration to Southern states, as well as Weise’s new book, “Corazon De Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910,” at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in Room 375 McKenzie Hall.

In her new book, Weise dissects the long history of Latinos living in the Southern states and how they lived during the Jim Crow system, how they developed community in cotton fields and what their role was during the civil rights movement.

Along with discussing the book and issues relating to the book’s topic, Weise will also talk about her experiences with working for the UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center on a companion website piece for her book, corazondedixie.org. The companion site works as a tool for teachers, and staffers from the digital scholarship center will be at the conference to answer faculty questions about Weise’s project and potential future projects.

—By Craig Garcia, Public Affairs Communications intern