Sojourners in the Capital of the World: Garifuna Immigrants

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinez, Maximo G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--New York (State)--New York.

Garifuna (Caribbean people).

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

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fordham University Press 2023

Summary:

"This fascinating book is the long-overdue account--written by a Garifuna New Yorker--of the ways that Garifuna immigrants from Guatemala, Belize, and Hondoras have organized themselves and become a vibrant presence in New York City, from the time of their first arrivals in the 1940s to the present"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

1. Origins, surviving, ensuring subsistence, and culture

2. Livelihood on the Caribbean coast

3. Early U.S. Garifuna communities

4. Identity and cultural growth: Garifunadao

5. Music, dance, and sports from the 1990s to the present

6. Social issues in New York City from the 1990s to the present

7. Central America and St. Vincent from the 1990s to the present.

ISBN:

9781531507763

153150776X

9781531504779

1531504779