The American South In A Global World

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

• ISBN13: 9780807855898
• ISBN10: 0807855898
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Globalization with a Southern Face	1	(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	9	(14)
Paul A. Levengood
The World on Time: Flexible Labor, New Immigrants, and Global Logistics	23	(16)
Barbara Ellen Smith
Marcela Mendoza
David H. Ciscel
Media and Racialization among Young, Working-Class, Latina Immigrants	39	(20)
Lucila Vargas
Federally Sponsored Mexican Migrants in the Transnational South	59	(24)
Sandy Smith-Nonini
Part Two. Global/Local Conjunctions
Entrepreneurial Governance in the Transnational South: The Case of Durham, North Carolina	83	(16)
Thaddeus Countway Guldbrandsen
Global Forces, Local Worlds: Mountaintop Removal and Appalachian Communities	99	(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