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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Broadway songs in all their gloryBy daltonknoxGrew up listening to the songs of the jazz era and Sheed is just the sort of writer to make you want to hear them all again. So fire up Youtube and revel in it all from Jerome Kerns "They didnt believe me" in 1915 to Stephen Sondheim or whoever you think closed the curtain on this great American repertoire.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. So much American Musical historyBy cybergidgetI loved this book and read it several years ago. It is full of history and American music came from tin can alley to Broadway shows. I loaned it to a co-worker and he never got it back to me. I think I am going to have buy it again. If you love those early songs by our American composers. you will thoroughly enjoy this one. Just dont loan it out. There is a notable story about the Gershwins and their song "Our Love..." George wrote the music. Ira wrote the words. The words to the song are Iras tribute to his brother who died so very young.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Awful Disappointment - Skip ItBy Boomer WomanThis book is the most poorly written and organized book Ive read in a long time. It does not nearly meet the expectations from the description. The authors undeserved ego gets in the way throughout the book. I thought that would only be in the foreward. but the same style carries through each chapter. There is very little information on each composer and it is quite repetitive. In most chapters it is difficult to discern much of a point. The rambling. uninteresting. tiresome style is more reminiscent of Andy Rooney expounding on 60 Minutes. Id give it zero stars if that was possible. After reading the completely engaging and engrossing Girls Like Us. about singer-songwriters of the 60s - Carole King. Joni Mitchell. and Carly Simon. I thought this would be an equally interesting treat to read about such stellar songwriters. My husband and I read this book for a couples book group and both agreed It was a deep disappointment and a complete waste of time and money.
