| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) : illustrations, map |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 from the Nueva Frontera sheds n |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Latin Americans -- Georgia -- Dalton (Whitfield County)
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Immigrants -- Georgia -- Dalton (Whitfield County) -- Social conditions
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Hispanic Americans -- Civilization
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Latin Americans
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Georgia -- Dalton (Whitfield County)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Donald Edward.
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| ISBN |
9781572336841 |
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1572336846 |
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