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Author: Leon Fink
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0807827746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina poultry plant sets the stage for this story of human struggle in an age of globalization. The author follows what happened when concerns about fairness and safety sparked a strike and an unlikely coalition.
Author: Leon Fink
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-11-20
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 080786241X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long standoff pits a recalcitrant New South employer against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the Laborers union. The ensuing clash becomes a testing ground for "new labor" workplace and legal strategies. In the process, the nation's fastest-growing immigrant region encounters a new struggle for social justice. Using scores of interviews, Leon Fink gives voice to a remarkably resilient people. He shows that, paradoxically, what sustains these global travelers are the ties of local community. Whether one is finding a job, going to church, joining a soccer team, or building a union, kin and linguistic connections to the place of one's birth prove crucial in negotiating today's global marketplace. A story set at the intersection of globalization and community, two words not often linked, The Maya of Morganton addresses fundamental questions about the changing face of labor in the United States.
Author: Xochitl Leyva Solano
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Published: 2005
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Loucky
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2000-10
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781439901229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow Maya refugees found new lives in strange lands.
Author: Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 081654235X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages. Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in the Guatemalan highlands, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural, and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, as well as Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States. Miller discusses how technologies of inscription and their mediations are shaped by human editors, translators, communities, and audiences, as well as by voices from the natural world. These texts push back not just on linear and compartmentalized Western notions of media but also on the idea of the singular author, creator, scholar, or artist removed from their environment. The persistence of orality and the interweaving of media forms combine to offer a challenge to audiences to participate in decolonial actions through language preservation. The Maya Art of Speaking Writing calls for centering Indigenous epistemologies by doing research in and through Indigenous languages as we engage in debates surrounding Indigenous literatures, anthropology, decoloniality, media studies, orality, and the digital humanities.
Author: Julio Moreno
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780807854785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexican and U.S. political leaders, business executives, and ordinary citizens shaped modern Mexico by making industrial capitalism the key to upward mobility into the middle class, material prosperity, and
Author: David Reimers
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0814775357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublisher description: In Other immigrants, David M. Reimers offers the first comprehensive account of non-European immigration, chronicling the compelling and diverse stories of frequently overlooked Americans. Reimers traces the early history of Black, Hispanic, and Asian immigrants from the fifteenth century through World War II, when racial hostility led to the virtual exclusion of Asians and aggression towards Blacks and Hispanics. He also describes the modern state of immigration to the U.S., where Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians made up nearly thirty percent of the population at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Author: William S. Price
Publisher: North Caroliniana Society Impr
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780865263345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three essays in this volume illuminate Nathaniel Macon's character, motivations, and values as demonstrated in his life and career--his agrarianism, his beliefs, his personality, his milieu, his politics, and, above all, his steadfast devotion to what he believed to be the legacy of the American Revolution.
Author: Lois Shepherd
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0807888648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions about what should be done. To many, courts were either ordering Terri's death by starvation or vindicating her constitutional rights. Both sides called for simple answers. If That Ever Happens to Me details why these simple answers were not right for Terri Schiavo and why they are not right for end-of-life decisions today. Lois Shepherd looks behind labels like "starvation," "care," or "medical treatment" to consider what care and feeding really mean, when feeding tubes might be removed, and why disability groups, the faithful, and even the dying themselves often suggest end-of-life solutions that they might later regret. For example, Shepherd cautions against living wills as a pat answer. She provides evidence that demanding letter-perfect documents can actually weaken, rather than bolster, patient choice. The actions taken and decisions made during Terri Schiavo's final years will continue to have repercussions for thousands of others--those nearing death, their families, health-care professionals, attorneys, lawmakers, clergy, media, researchers, and ethicists. If That Ever Happens to Me is an excellent choice for anyone interested in end-of-life law, policy, and ethics--particularly readers seeking a deeper understanding of the issues raised by Terri Schiavo's case.
Author: Allen Tullos
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780807842478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHabits of Industry provides a richly descriptive social, historical, and cultural account of the Carolina Piedmont_the area between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Coastal Plain_over the course of 150 years. By examining the social and religious c
