Voices from the Nueva Frontera
Author | : Donald E. Davis |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2009-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1572336536 |
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The Dalton-Whit?eld 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 fr ...