TY - JOUR
T1 - An "incomplete" picture? Race, Latino migration, and urban politics in Nashville, Tennessee
AU - Winders, Jamie
N1 - Funding Information:
1I thank Rich Schein, Alison Mountz, John Paul Jones III, Susan Roberts, Mary Anglin, and Brian Rich for their insights throughout this research. Early versions of these ideas were presented at the 2004 Summer Institute on International Migration at the University of California, Los Angeles, the 2004–2005 Immigration and Cultures of Inclusion and Exclusion Speaker Series at Dartmouth College, and the 2005 American Cultures Colloquium at Northwestern University. Input from these gatherings is greatly appreciated. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0302502 and the Graduate School at the University of Kentucky. 2Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jamie Winders, Department of Geography, 144 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA; telephone: 315-443-5865; fax: 315-443-4227; e-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2008/4/1
Y1 - 2008/4/1
N2 - This article examines Latino migration's effects on understandings of race, structures of racial hierarchies, and terms of racial politics in Nashville, Tennessee, a metropolis that has experienced rapid Latino population growth since the mid-1990s. Drawing on an analysis of both a series of interviews with key actors across Nashville and a series of urban controversies in the late 1990s, it queries the contradictory place that Latino/as occupy in metropolitan Nashville's racial formations and practices. On the one hand, Latino/as, as a racially marked group, are ambiguously situated in Nashville's racial categories and hierarchy. On the other hand, key events and political conflicts at least temporarily crystallize Nashville's racial fault lines and alliances, placing Latino/as squarely within debates concerning social justice and racial solidarity. The article concludes by reflecting on the implications of the "incomplete" picture of Latino migration's effects on race and cultural belonging in Nashville and other southern cities.
AB - This article examines Latino migration's effects on understandings of race, structures of racial hierarchies, and terms of racial politics in Nashville, Tennessee, a metropolis that has experienced rapid Latino population growth since the mid-1990s. Drawing on an analysis of both a series of interviews with key actors across Nashville and a series of urban controversies in the late 1990s, it queries the contradictory place that Latino/as occupy in metropolitan Nashville's racial formations and practices. On the one hand, Latino/as, as a racially marked group, are ambiguously situated in Nashville's racial categories and hierarchy. On the other hand, key events and political conflicts at least temporarily crystallize Nashville's racial fault lines and alliances, placing Latino/as squarely within debates concerning social justice and racial solidarity. The article concludes by reflecting on the implications of the "incomplete" picture of Latino migration's effects on race and cultural belonging in Nashville and other southern cities.
KW - Immigration
KW - Latino migration
KW - Nashville
KW - Race
KW - Southern U.S. cities
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U2 - 10.2747/0272-3638.29.3.246
DO - 10.2747/0272-3638.29.3.246
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43849086253
SN - 0272-3638
VL - 29
SP - 246
EP - 263
JO - Urban Geography
JF - Urban Geography
IS - 3
ER -