In the last ten years; the growing Latino population in the United States has been attracting a great deal of attention that has focused on the social; political; economic; cultural; and linguistic transformations that communities across the country are undergoing due to the influx of Latin American immigrants. Particularly affected by these recent arrivals have been towns and cities that have been traditionally unaccustomed to significant numbers of foreign nationals in their area. Latinos and the U.S. South delves into the commonalities and dissimilarities between the varieties of Latino and U.S. Southern cultures; proposing that the manner in which these areas adapt to the challenges posed by the arrival of these most recent Hispanic residents heralds the present and future conduct of other communities receiving nontraditional Latino immigration in the United States today.Through an analysis that incorporates historical research; existing legislation; and economic trends and statistics; and explores U.S. Southern and Latin American literatures; religious customs; the construction of a U.S. Southern identity; current events such as Hurricane Katrina; present tensions; and personal experience; Latinos and the U.S. South offers a window into how Latinos are adapting to an emblematic yet often overlooked region of the United States and the possible parallels between the two.
#652156 in Books Howard E Potts foreword by Charles Joyner 1997-05-12Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.02 x .94 x 8.50l; 2.97 #File Name: 0313292043424 pagesA comprehensive name index for The American slave
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Long-overdue; makes Rawick accessible (finally!)By David E. PatersonWith the publication of Howard E. Potts; A Comprehensive Name Index for the American Slave (1997); one formidable obstacle has been removed from researchers searching for slave interviews from particular localities or interviews that relate to particular persons. The 42 volumes of Rawick's collection of slave narratives has daunted researchers because of lack of an index. Previously; the only way to find all interviews that related to a particular geographic area (for instance) was to read all 42 volumes; page by page. This book presents versions of the same database; sorted by different fields; including name of interviewee; name of interviewer; county/counties and states in which the interviewee lived during slavery; name of former owner/s; age and birth year of interviewee. This index is a very serviceable tool for historians who may be writing local history and who wish to gather testimony from a particular locale; likewise; biographers of particular slaves and slaveowners will find the book indispensible. Researchers like myself who always pine for more will wish that the compiler had indexed the names of ALL persons mentioned in the slave narratives; not just the interviewees and their former owners. There is still no subject index for this huge collection. Nevertheless; Potts has provided the only practical key to an indispensible set of documents of American history.
