The American South in a Global World

Table of contents

• Title Page ii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments ix
• The American South in a Global World xi
• Introduction - Globalization with a Southern Face 1
• Part One - Immigration 7
• Latino Migration to Miami and Houston - Transnationalism at Work in Two Southern Cities 9
• The World on Time - Flexible Labor, New Immigrants, and Global Logistics 23
• Media and Racialization among Young, Working-Class, Latina Immigrants 39
• Federally Sponsored Mexican Migrants in the Transnational South 59
• Part Two - Global/Local Conjunctions 81
• Entrepreneurial Governance in the Transnational South - The Case of Durham, North Carolina 83
• Global Forces, Local Worlds - Mountaintop Removal and Appalachian Communities 99
• Part Three - Globalism's Localisms Industry and Workers 111
• Nonlocal Forces in the Historical Evolution and Current Transformation of North Carolina's Furniture Industry 113
• Voices of Southern Mill Workers - Responses to Border Crossers in American Factories and Jobs Crossing Borders 138
• We're All Mexicans Here - Poultry Processing, Latino Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the South 152
• Gatokaca Drive - Global Relations Between Souths in Mobile, Alabama 166
• Part Four - Flexible Citizenship Transnational Professionals 173
• The South Meets the East - Japanese Professionals in North Carolina's Research Triangle 175
• North Carolina's Indians - Erasing Race to Make the Citizen 192
• Part Five - Application Activist Approaches to the Transnational South 203
• Monolingualism and Racialism as Curable Diseases - Nuestra América in the Transnational South 205
• The Latinization of Rome, Georgia - Undergraduate Research and Community Activism 223
• Civil Rights, Immigration, and the Prospects for Social Justice Collaboration 235
• Part Six - Tripartite Epilogue 245
• Critique - Creating the Transnational South 247
• The South and Grounded Globalism 265
• Southern History, Southern Future - Some Reflections and a Cautious Forecast 277
• Contributors 289
• Index 293

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