Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York / edited by Nancy Foner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foner, Nancy, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West Indian Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--Congresses.

West Indian Americans.

West Indian Americans--Race identity--New York (State)--New York--Congresses.

Black people--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--Congresses.

Black people.

Black people--Race identity--New York (State)--New York--Congresses.

Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--Congresses.

Immigrants.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--Congresses.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Race relations--Congresses.

New York (N.Y.)--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.

West Indies--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York An Overview

1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City

2. Where New York's West Indians Work

3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York

4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study

5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network

6. "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity

7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation

8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians

9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with "Blackness"

Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination

References

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Based on a conference entitled West Indian migration to New York : historical, contemporary, and transnational perspectives, which was held at the Research Institute for the Study of Man in April 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index.

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ISBN:

9786612762475

9781597346887

1597346888

9780520935808

0520935802

9781282762473

1282762478

OCLC:

475930369