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9780520228504

Islands in the City

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520228504

  • ISBN10:

    0520228502

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Islands in the City brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the distinctive experiences of West Indian migrants in New York, America's quintessential immigrant city.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview 1(22)
Nancy Foner
PART I. GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE 23(92)
Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City
25(27)
Irma Watkins-Owens
Where New York's West Indians Work
52(29)
Suzanne Model
West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York
81(34)
Kyle D. Crowder
Lucky M. Tedrow
PART II. TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 115(46)
Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study
117(25)
Linda Basch
New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network
142(19)
Karen Fog Olwig
PART III. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION 161(96)
``Black Like Who?'' Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity
163(30)
Reuel Rogers
Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation
193(23)
Mary C. Waters
Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians
216(21)
Vilna F. Bashi Bobb
Averil Y. Clarke
Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with ``Blackness''
237(20)
Milton Vickerman
Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination 257(20)
Philip Kasinitz
References 277(20)
Notes on Contributors 297(4)
Index 301

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