Vol. 27 No. 2 - Summer 1999

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No Easy Journey: New Immigrants in the South

• From the Editor

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• Letters: Confederates in the Attic

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• Remembrance: Virginia Durr, 1904-1999

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• Around the Institute

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• Southern News Roundup

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• Followup: Has Welfare Reform Worked?

  By Keith Ernst

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• Birth of a Mestizo Nation

  Latinos are becoming new Southerners, and creating a new South. By Marcos McPeek Villatoro

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• Newcomers by Numbers

  Record-breaking numbers of immigrants are calling the South home. By Leah Van Wey

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• Fotos del Pueblo

  To immigrants, the camera "can be both friend and enemy." Photo essay by Susan Simone

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• Foreigner, Go Home!

  Newcomers feel the bite of the anti-immigrant crackdown. By Marsha Barber

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• This Land is Whose Land?

  Emma Lazarus is probably turning in her grave. By Keith Ernst

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• Born in the U.S.A.

  Recent policy reforms may have created a public health tragedy. By Maureen Zent

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• Whiting Out History

  How a nation of immigrants became anti-immigrant. By Grace Elizabeth Hale

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• Armed and Dangerous

  The INS turns the South into occupied territory. By Chris Kromm

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• Uprooting Injustice

  Has farmwork changed since the "Harvest of Shame?" By Sandy Smith-Nonini

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• "A Union is the Only Way"

  The Farm Labor Organizing Committee seeks to bring justice to the fields. By Sandy Smith-Nonini

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• Beyond "Divide and Rule" Roundtable

  African-American and Latino activists talk about tensions, the media, and joining forces to face "the real issues."

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• Fiction: Not This Virginia

  By Terry Bisson

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• Poetry: Village Cry

  By Glenis Redmond Sherer

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• Reviews of Southern Media

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• Still the South: Red Tide

  By Mary Lee Kerr

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