About the Editor: Mary E. Odem

MARY E. ODEM is an associate professor at Emory University with a joint appointment in the departments of History and Women's Studies. Her areas of specialization are U.S. history; women, gender, and family; and immigration and ethnicity. She has received several fellowships, and her first book, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, won the President's Book Award for the best new book manuscript from the Social Science History Association and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1996. She has published numerous articles, co-edited Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault and most recently published Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges.

Selected Publications

• "Enchando Raices: Latin American Settlement in Memphis" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Exploring New Avenues to Manage Mexico-U.S. Migration" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigration to Atlanta," Southern Spaces: an Internet Journal and Scholarly Forum (2006) 
• "Immigracion trasnacional y organizacion maya en el sur de Estados Unidos" in Comunidades en Movimiento: la Migracion Internacional en el Norte de Huehuetenango 
• "Introduction: Latino/a Migration to the Southeast" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Latin American Immigrants, Religion, and the Politics of Urban Space in Atlanta" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South, University of Georgia Press, 2009 
• "Latino Immigrants, Religion and the Politics of Space in Atlanta" in Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South, , 2009 
• "Mexican Immigration to the South: Community and Cultural Change in Dalton, Georgia" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Mexican Immigration/Migration to Alabama" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, , 2005 
• "Mexican Labor and North American Economic Interaction" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Mexican Migration to the Southeastern United States" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Our Lady of Guadalupe in the New South: Latin American Immigrants and the Politics of Integration in the Catholic Church," Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 23 (2004): 29-60
• "Poultry Processing, People's Politics: Industrial Restructuring and Organizing Across Difference in a Transnational Mississippi" in Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Ranchero and Country Music: Change and Citizenship Among Mexicans in South Carolina" in Mexican Migration to the Southeastern United States, Instituto de Mexico, 2005 
• "Unsettled in the Suburbs: Latino Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in Metro Atlanta" in Twenty-first Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America