Immigration and the political economy of home : West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 / Rachel Buff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buff, Rachel, 1961-

Series:

American crossroads ; 5.

American crossroads ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Powwows--Minnesota--Minneapolis.

Powwows.

Indians of North America--Urban residence--Minnesota--Minneapolis.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Ethnic identity.

Carnival--New York (State)--New York.

Carnival.

West Indians--New York (State)--New York--Ethnic identity.

West Indians.

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

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian American Day Carnival in New York.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Immigration, Race, and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992; 2. Playing for Keeps; 3. Im/migration Policy, the National Romance, and the Poetics of World Domination, 1945-1965; 4. Performative Spaces, Urban Politics, and the Changing Meanings of Home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis; 5. Sounds of Brooklyn: Pan Yards as Im/migrant Social Spaces; 6. Gender and Generation Down the Red Road; Afterword; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-229) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92392-8

1-59734-671-3

OCLC:

475928699