| Description |
1 online resource (342 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
The working class in American history
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Working class in American history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Heartland north, heartland south / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood -- Part I. Geographies in historical perspective -- Mexicans in the United States : a longer view / Andrew Grant Wood -- Betabeleros and the western Nebraska sugar industry : an early-twentieth-century history / Tisa M. Anders -- Latinos and the churches in Idaho, 1950-2000 / Errol D. Jones -- Part II. Contesting policy and legal boundaries -- Seeing no evil : the H2A guest-worker program and state-mediated labor exploitation in rural North Carolina / Sandy Smith-Nonini -- On removing migrant labor in a right-to-work state : the failure of employer sanctions in Oklahoma / Linda Allegro -- Part III. Transnational identities and new landscapes of home -- Rooted/uprooted : place, policy, and Salvadoran transnational identities in rural Arkansas / Miranda Cady Hallett -- Contesting diversity and community within Postville, Iowa : "Hometown to the world" / Jennifer F. Reynolds and Caitlin Didier -- Part IV. Media and reimagined sites of accommodation and contestation -- Humanizing Latino newcomers in the "No Coast" region / Edmund T. Hamann with Jenelle Reeves -- Immigrant integration and the changing public discourse : the case of Emporia, Kansas / László J. Kulcsár and Albert Iaroi -- Part V. Religion and migrant communities -- "They cling to guns or religion" : Pennsylvania towns put faith in anti-immigrant ordinances / Jane Juffer -- Part VI. Demographics -- Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : demographic and economic activity in six heartland states, 2000-2007 / Scott Carter -- Conclusion: Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : reshaping communities, redrawing boundaries / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hispanic Americans -- West North Central States -- Social conditions.
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Hispanic Americans. |
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United States -- West North Central States. |
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Social conditions. |
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Latin Americans -- West North Central States -- Social conditions.
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Latin Americans. |
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Immigrants -- West North Central States.
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Immigrants. |
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Foreign workers -- West North Central States.
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Foreign workers. |
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Social change -- West North Central States.
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Social change. |
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West North Central States -- Social conditions.
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West North Central States -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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West North Central States -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Latin America -- Emigration and immigration.
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Latin America. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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West North Central States -- Emigration and immigration.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Allegro, Linda.
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Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780252037665 0252037669 (DLC) 2012048319 |
| ISBN |
0252094921 (electronic book) |
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9780252094927 (electronic book) |
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9780252037665 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0252037669 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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