Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York

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This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Foner, Nancy, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001
Subjects:
West Indian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > Congresses.
West Indian Americans > Race identity > New York (State) > New York > Congresses.
Black people > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > Congresses.
Black people > Race identity > New York (State) > New York > Congresses.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > Congresses.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > Congresses.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > Congresses.
New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration > Congresses.
West Indies > Emigration and immigration > Congresses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview / Nancy Foner
  • Gender, Work, and Residence
  • Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City / Irma Watkins-Owens
  • Where New York's West Indians Work / Suzanne Model
  • West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York / Kyle D. Crowder, Lucky M. Tedrow
  • Transnational Perspectives
  • Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study / Linda Basch
  • New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network / Karen Fog Olwig
  • Race, Ethnicity, and the Second Generation
  • "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity / Reuel Rogers
  • Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation / Mary C. Waters
  • Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians / Vilna F. Bashi Bobb, Averil Y. Clarke
  • Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with "Blackness" / Milton Vickerman
  • Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination / Philip Kasinitz.

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