Constructing borders/crossing boundaries : race, ethnicity, and immigration / edited by Caroline B. Brettell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brettell, Caroline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Ethnic barriers.

United States.

Social conditions.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Ethnic barriers--United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Constructing borders, crossing boundaries

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The essays in this volume take on the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. The individual scholars contributing to this volume model, deploy, and explain notions of "borders" and "boundaries" in various ways, but collectively they emphasize the fluidity of racial and ethnic identities that are shaped, negotiated, and contested in specific contexts and situations. Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries also captures the range of spaces in which ethnicity and race become salient-the university, the immigrant enclave, the detention center, the workplace, the nightclub, and even the trans-Atlantic passage. This interdisciplinary volume features essays on a diverse range of immigrant populations from past to present and will interest scholars across disciplines.

Contents:

Race, ethnicity and the construction of immigrant identities / Caroline B. Brettell

Violence, migration, and becoming Igbo in Gustavus Vassa's Interesting narrative / Alexander X. Byrd

Undue process : racial genealogies of immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández

The immigrant experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in the 1990s : crossing class, racial, and gender boundaries or temporary work spaces in New York City / Norma Fuentes

Ethnic borders in American Muslim communities / Jamillah Karim

Black ethnicity and racial community : African-Americans and West Indian immigrants in the United States / Alana C. Hackshaw

Appalachian Mestizaje : race and Latino immigration in western North Carolina / Mariel Rose

Job-hopping : social networks in the global high-tech industry / Johanna Shih

Beyond the ethnic enclave : the effect of ethnic solidarity and market opportunity on white, Korean, Mexican, and Black enterprise / Zulema Valdez

Separately together : co-ethnic employment among second-generation immigrants in the metropolitan New York labor market / Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida

Immigrant selectivity, ethnic capital, and the reproduction of educational inequalities across borders / Cynthia Feliciano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739115693

9780739115695

OCLC:

68623964