The educational welcome of Latinos in the new South / Edmund T. Hamann ; foreword by Guadalupe M. Valdeś.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-266) and index.

Foreword / Guadalupe M. Valdes -- Negotiating a New Demography: Schooling and the "Latinization" of North Georgia -- The Ethnography of Educational Policy -- Places, Scripts, and People: The Particularities of People and Settings -- 125 Years of Race, Class, and Corporate Paternalism in Dalton -- Of Immigration Scripts and the Conceptualization of Latino Newcomers -- The Georgia Project's Dalton Founders -- Mexican University Partners -- A Novel Binational Partnership: From Launch to Consolidation -- The Complaints of a "Parapro," Action, and One School Pointing the Way -- Designing a Partnership: Three Meetings, a Grant Proposal, and a Challenge -- Visiting Instructors: Experts or Parapros? -- Summer Training in Mexico and Its Challenge to Traditional Governance -- We Want Bilingual Education Except We Don't -- The Universidad Also Does What It Wants -- Something Gained and Something Lost -- Ephemeral Opportunity or Inclusive New Order -- The Politics of Latino Education Policy: Implications of the Georgia Project.