RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 The Racialization of Latino Immigrants in New Destinations: Criminality, Ascription, and Countermobilization JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences FD Russell Sage Foundation SP 118 OP 140 DO 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.06 VO 4 IS 5 A1 Hana E. Brown A1 Jennifer A. Jones A1 Andrea Becker YR 2018 UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/5/118.abstract AB This article analyzes patterns in Latino immigrant racialization in the U.S. South. Drawing on a unique dataset of more than 4,200 news stories from the region, we find that Latino immigrants face multifaceted racialization in the news media and that this racialization shares substantive similarities with African American racialization processes. The most dominant negative characterizations of Mexican and Latino immigrants focus on their perceived criminal tendencies. Claims of Latino criminality apply implicitly coded racial language about black criminality to new Latino arrivals. A close qualitative analysis of these trends reveals an ongoing cycle of racialization in which immigration foes challenge Latino or Mexican immigrants as criminal elements and immigration advocates respond with charges of racism and discrimination. Supplemental analyses from four African American newspapers suggest that black elites perceive Latinos as sharing a common experience of racial discrimination at the hands of whites.