Nashville in the New Millennium
Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging
Publication Year: 2013
Published by: Russell Sage Foundation
Frontmatter
Preface
In 2002 I arrived in Nashville, Tennessee, to commence a study of Latino immigrant workers and their experiences in the city. This project began my career as a scholar of immigration, race, and American cities and eventually led to the research on immigrant incorporation in Nashville schools, neighborhoods, and wider urban politics on which this book is based....
1. Nashville in the New Millennium
In the midst of one of the last interviews I conducted with schoolteachers for this study, Yvonne, a school psychologist, shared a sentiment that I had heard across Nashville since the early 2000s, and that I had largely accepted: Nashville wanted immigrant labor but not immigrant residents. Nashville, like many new destinations (Murphy et al. 2001; Rich and Miranda...
2. Putting New Places on the Map: How to Study New Immigrant Destinations
As chapter 1 suggested, and as much research on new destinations at-tests, a defining feature of the new geography of immigrant settlement that emerged in the late 1990s has been the speed with which it developed. Through the mid-1990s, Nashville, like many American cities out-side established immigrant gateways such as Los Angeles and New York ...
3. Two Neighborhoods, Two Histories, Two Geographies: Placing Southeast Nashville
What happens in cities like Nashville when neighborhoods and schools change through immigrant settlement? Within schools, how does the presence of students who themselves or whose families came from Latin America and beyond affect what teachers teach, how they see and under-stand their students, and where they place their work in the classroom ...
4. Diversity at the Door: Understanding Demographic Change in the Classroom
In an interview squeezed into the planning period of Leslie, a young African American teacher at Morgan Elementary in southeast Nashville, conversation turned to her increasingly diverse classroom. A seasoned teacher and resident of Antioch, Leslie had lived and worked through the social and demographic changes at the center of this book. In her reflections on ...
5. Responding to Diversity: Multiculturalism, Immigration Politics, and Southern History in the Classroom
When Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) initially denied my re-quest to conduct this study in their schools in May 2006, I contacted adjacent school systems in middle Tennessee in the hopes of salvaging the project and finding other districts interested in it. These preliminary inter-views with educators across Nashville’s greater metropolitan area painted ...
6. Seeing Immigrant Nashville: Institutional Visibility, Urban Governance, and Immigrant Incorporation
On an early evening in July 2007, my research assistant, Sandra, and I wandered into a draft concept plan meeting organized by Metro Nashville’s Planning Department.1 Held in the old Turner School in the heart of southeast Nashville, this meeting was part of a visioning exercise designed to create a new land-use plan that would form the basis for zoning ...
7. Silent Streets: Assimilation, Race, and Place in the Neighborhood
To explain how he understood life in Nashville, Leonardo, like most Latino immigrants who participated in this study, compared living in Nashville neighborhoods to living in his home town in El Salvador. Also like most other Latino immigrants, he described more differences than similarities between the two places. There, Leonardo felt more mobile and...
8. Ma(r)king the Neighborhood: New Immigrants, Old Boundaries, New Maps
Carl was clearly a neighborhood leader and active resident when we spoke in 2006. Nearly a lifelong Radnor resident, he had observed many changes in his neighborhood, all of which he seemed to take in stride. School integration in the 1970s had changed Carl’s neighborhood and led to the closing of Central High School, which he attended and to which he...
9. At the Intersection of History and Diversity
Nashville entered the last decade of the twentieth century a black-and-white city whose place on the map of country music was established but whose place on the map of international migration was questionable at best. By the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, that image had changed. During the 2000s, Nashville’s immigrant communities grew through international migration from Latin America, secondary migration...
E-ISBN-13: 9781610448024
Print-ISBN-13: 9780871549334
Page Count: 340
Publication Year: 2013
OCLC Number: 844727834
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