Jamie Winders;Jamie Winders
Beginning in the 1990s, the geography of Latino migration to and within the United Sta...
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2013
Beginning in the 1990s, the geography of Latino migration to and within the United States started to shift. Immigrants from Central and South America increasingly bypassed the traditional gateway cities to settle in small cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the nation, particularly in the South. One popular new destination—Nashville , Tennessee —saw its Hispanic population increase by over 400 percent between 1990 and 2000. Nashville , like many other such new immigrant destinations, had little to no history of incorporating immigrants into local life. How did Nashville , as a city and society, respond to immigrant settlement? How did Latino immigrants come to understand their place in Nashville in the midst of this remarkable demographic change? In Nashville in the New Millennium, geographer Jamie Winders offers one of the first extended studies of the cultural, racial, and institutional politics of immigrant incorporation in a new urban destination. Moving from schools to neighborhoods to Nashville 's wider civic institutions, Nashville in the New Millennium details how Nashville 's long-term residents and its new immigrants experienced daily life as it transformed into a multicultural city with a new cosmopolitanism. Using an impressive array of methods, including archival work, interviews, and participant observation, Winders offers a fine-grained analysis of the importance of historical context, collective memories and shared social spaces in the process of immigrant incorporation. Lacking a shared memory of immigrant settlement, Nashville 's long-term residents turned to local history to explain and interpret a new Latino presence. A site where Latino day laborers gathered, for example, became a flashpoint in Nashville 's politics of immigration in part because the area had once been a popular gathering place for area teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s. Teachers also drew from local historical memories, particularly the busing era, to make sense of their newly multicultural student body. They struggled, however, to help immigrant students relate to the region's complicated racial past, especially during history lessons on the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement. When Winders turns to life in Nashville 's neighborhoods, she finds that many Latino immigrants opted to be quiet in public, partly in response to negative stereotypes of Hispanics across Nashville . Long-term residents, however, viewed this silence as evidence of a failure to adapt to local norms of being neighborly. Filled with voices from both long-term residents and Latino immigrants, Nashville in the New Millennium offers an intimate portrait of the changing geography of immigrant settlement in America. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latino migration's impact on race relations in the country and is an especially valuable contribution to the study of race and ethnicity in the South.
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Assimilation (Sociology)--Tennessee--Nashville - Population geography--Tennessee--Nashville - Hispanic Americans--Tennessee--Nashville--Social conditions - Hispanic Americans--Cultural assimilation--Tennessee--Nashville - Immigrants--Tennessee--NashvilleContent provider:
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Protect, Serve, and Deport : The Rise of Policing As Immigration Enforcement
Amada Armenta;Amada Armenta
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, the UC Press open acc...
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Protect, Serve, and Deport : The Rise of Policing As Immigration Enforcement
2017
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, the UC Press open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville , Tennessee . Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville 's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals, but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.
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Immigration enforcement--Tennessee--Nashville - Latin Americans--Tennessee--Nashville - Noncitizens--Government policy--United StatesContent provider:
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Mariachi and Spanish Speaking English Learners: District Initiatives, Models, and Education Policy
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Arts Education Policy Review. 2017 118(4):208-219.
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Neel, Marcia MacCagno
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Arts Education Policy Review. 2017 118(4):208-219.
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Districts nationwide are challenged with how best to address the needs of an increasin...
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Mariachi and Spanish Speaking English Learners: District Initiatives, Models, and Education Policy
Arts Education Policy Review. 2017 118(4):208-219.
Districts nationwide are challenged with how best to address the needs of an increasing number of non-English or limited-English speaking students. These young people are similarly challenged as they face new environs, unfamiliar cultural settings, and significant communication issues. Findings have indicated that an arts-rich education can assist limited English speakers, many of them considered to be at-risk students, to achieve at higher levels. This article examines a number of districts with growing Hispanic populations that have implemented standards-based mariachi programs and found success in engaging Spanish speaking English learners, their parents, and the Hispanic community at large in the process. Some of these districts had considerable issues needing to be resolved but innovative solutions have led to student success. One district that serves as a model to be replicated is chronicled in detail due to how its creative program implementation subsequently informed policy. School climate data is also provided by another district, which broke down its reporting according to subgroup. Although the data do not measure only those who were enrolled solely in mariachi courses, the major findings are significant in that they indicate how music coursework impacts Latino students specifically. The impact of participating as an active music-maker in any ensemble by any participant cannot be overlooked, but for Spanish speaking English learners, the standards-based mariachi program provides a culturally familiar and welcoming setting, facilitates new patterns of learning, and addresses the priority of attaining English language proficiency.
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Barbieri, Kelly
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Amusement Business; 2/16/2004, Vol. 116 Issue 7, p13-18, 2p, 1 Color Photograph
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With the Spanish speaking population in many markets around the U.S. growing at an eve...
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Amusement Business; 2/16/2004, Vol. 116 Issue 7, p13-18, 2p, 1 Color Photograph
With the Spanish speaking population in many markets around the U.S. growing at an ever-increasing rate, many fairs and festivals are looking to tap into the increasingly potent demographic. Joe Casias, co-owner of Universal Latin Agency in Nashville , Tennessee has been adding between four and six fairs a year to his booking roster since 1999. Fairs introducing Latin music should start small and build from there, said Casias. The increase in Latin music markets is somewhat reflected in Spanish-language TV and the relatively new Mun2, a cable network that features roughly 60% of music-oriented programming.
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