The American South In A Global World

, by Peacock, James L.; Watson, Harry L.; Matthews, Carrie R.

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ISBN: 9780807855898 | 0807855898
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Copyright: 1/30/2005

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This volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern US. Essays address such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicity, and organizing for social justice; and the assimilation of foreign-born professionals.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Globalization with a Southern Face

(8)

James L. Peacock

Harry L. Watson

Carrie R. Matthews

Part One. Immigration

Latino Migration to Miami and Houston: Transnationalism at Work in Two Southern Cities

(14)

Paul A. Levengood

The World on Time: Flexible Labor, New Immigrants, and Global Logistics

(16)

Barbara Ellen Smith

Marcela Mendoza

David H. Ciscel

Media and Racialization among Young, Working-Class, Latina Immigrants

(20)

Lucila Vargas

Federally Sponsored Mexican Migrants in the Transnational South

(24)

Sandy Smith-Nonini

Part Two. Global/Local Conjunctions

Entrepreneurial Governance in the Transnational South: The Case of Durham, North Carolina

(16)

Thaddeus Countway Guldbrandsen

Global Forces, Local Worlds: Mountaintop Removal and Appalachian Communities

(14)

Bryan McNeil

Part Three. Globalism's Localisms: Industry and Workers

Nonlocal Forces in the Historical Evolution and Current Transformation of North Carolina's Furniture Industry

113

(25)

Meenu Tewari

Voices of Southern Mill Workers: Responses to Border Crossers in American Factories and Jobs Crossing Borders

138

(14)

Rachel A. Willis

We're All Mexicans Here: Poultry Processing, Latino Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the South

152

(14)

Steve Striffler

Gatokaca Drive: Global Relations between Souths in Mobile, Alabama

166

(9)

James L. Peacock

Carla Jones

Catherine Brooks

Part Four. Flexible Citizenship: Transnational Professionals

The South Meets the East: Japanese Professionals in North Carolina's Research Triangle

175

(17)

Sawa Kurotani

North Carolina's Indians: Erasing Race to Make the Citizen

192

(13)

Ajantha Subramanian

Part Five. Application: Activist Approaches to the Transnational South

Monolingualism and Racialism as Curable Diseases: Nuestra America in the Transnational South

205

(18)

Gregory Stephens

The Latinization of Rome, Georgia: Undergraduate Research and Community Activism

223

(12)

Jennie M. Smith

Civil Rights, Immigration, and the Prospects for Social Justice Collaboration

235

(12)

Ellen Griffith Spears

Part Six. Tripartite Epilogue

Critique: Creating the Transnational South

247

(18)

Donald M. Nonini

The South and Grounded Globalism

265

(12)

James L. Peacock

Southern History, Southern Future: Some Reflections and a Cautious Forecast

277

(12)

Harry L. Watson

Contributors

289

(4)

Index

293

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