Becoming New Yorkers

by Kasinitz, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780871544360
• ISBN10: 0871544369
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Worlds of the Second Generation	1	(20)
Philip Kasinitz
John H. Mollenkopf
Mary C. Waters
PART I EDUCATION	21	(90)
Unraveling the Race-Gender Gap in Education: Second-Generation Dominican Men's High School Experiences	28	(29)
Nancy Lopez
Somewhere Between Wall Street and El Barrio: Community College as a Second Chance for Second-Generation Latino Students	57	(22)
Alex Trillo
``Being Practical'' or ``Doing What I Want'': The Role of Parents in the Academic Choices of Chinese Americans	79	(32)
Vivian Louie
PART II WORK	111	(78)
Who's Behind the Counter? Retail Workers in New York City	115	(39)
Victoria Malkin
Leaving the Ethnic Economy: The Rapid Integration of Second-Generation Korean Americans in New York	154	(35)
Dae Young Kim
PART III PARTICIPATION	189	(92)
``Isn't Anybody Here from Alabama?'': Solidarity and Struggle in a ``Mighty, Mighty Union''	197	(30)
Amy Foerster
Ethnic and Postethnic Politics in New York City: The Dominican Second Generation	227	(30)
Nicole P. Marwell
Chinatown or Uptown? Second-Generation Chinese American Protestants in New York City	257	(24)
Karen Chai Kim
PART IV IDENTITY	281	(112)
``We're Just Black'': The Racial and Ethnic Identities of Second-Generation West Indians in New York	288	(25)
Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield
Class Matters: Racial and Ethnic Identities of Working- and Middle-Class Second-Generation Korean Americans in New York City	313	(26)
Sara S. Lee
Affinities and Affiliations: The Many Ways of Being a Russian Jewish American	339	(22)
Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida
Cosmopolitan Ethnicity: Second-Generation Indo-Caribbean Identities	361	(32)
Natasha Warikoo
Conclusion Children of Immigrants, Children of America	393	(12)
Index	405