Voices from the nueva frontera : Latino immigration in Dalton, Georgia / edited by Donald E. Davis ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Donald Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--Civilization.

Hispanic Americans.

Immigrants--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Latin Americans--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County).

Latin Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Dalton-Whitfeld 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

Contents:

The new face of carpet / Thomas M. Deaton

The economic impact / Aref A. Hervani

The culture of the capital de las alfombras / Roschelle Bautista

The religious response / Father Daniel Stack

The public school response / Ken W. Ellinger

The Georgia project / Jo-Anne Schick

The state college / Monte Salyer

The social problems / Donald E. Davis

The social work agenda / David P. Boyle

Conclusion: lessons of the nueva frontera.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613098405

9781283098403

1283098407

9781572336841

1572336846

OCLC:

699513602