In this Book
- Voices from the Nueva Frontera: Latino Immigration in Dalton, Georgia
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: The University of Tennessee Press
summary
The Dalton-Whitfield County area of Georgia has one of the highest concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United States. In 2006, a Washington Post article referred to the carpet-manufacturing city of Dalton as a “U.S. border town,” even though the community lies more than twelve hundred miles from Mexico. Voices from the Nueva Frontera explores this phenomenon, providing an in-depth picture of Latino immigration and dispersal in rural America along with a framework for understanding the economic integration of the South with Latin America.
Voices from the Nueva Frontera sheds new light on the often invisible changes that have transformed this north Georgia town over the last thirty years. The book's contributors explore the changes to labor markets and educational, religious, and social organizations and show that Dalton provides a largely successful example of a community that has provided a home to a newly arriving immigrant work force. While debates about immigration have raged in the public spotlight in recent years, some of the most important voices-those of the immigrants themselves-have been nearly unheard. In this pathbreaking book, therefore, each chapter opens with an interview of a worker, student, teacher, or other professional involved in the immigrant experience. These narratives add human faces to the realities of dramatic change occurring in rural industrial towns.
Sure to spark lively discussion in the classroom and beyond, Voices from the Nueva Frontera gives readers a look at individual human stories and provides much-needed documentation for what might be the most important social change in recent southern history.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Editors’ Note
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xviii
- Part I: Frontera Economics
- Chapter 1: The Face of Carpet
- pp. 3-22
- Chapter 2: The Economic Impact
- pp. 23-39
- Part II: Frontera Culture
- Chapter 4: The Religious Response
- pp. 61-79
- Part III: Frontera Education
- Chapter 5: The Public School Response
- pp. 83-105
- Chapter 6: The Georgia Project
- pp. 107-124
- Chapter 7: The State College
- pp. 125-142
- Part IV: Frontera Problems
- Chapter 8: The Social Problems
- pp. 145-160
- Chapter 9: The Social Work Agenda
- pp. 161-177
- Conclusion: Lessons of the Nueva Frontera
- pp. 179-183
- Contributors
- pp. 185-186
- Index [Includes Back Cover]
- pp. 187-189
Additional Information
ISBN
9781572336841
Related ISBN(s)
9781572336537
MARC Record
OCLC
699513602
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No