Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York

Author(s)

• Foner, Nancy

Bibliographic Information

Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York

edited by Nancy Foner

University of California Press, c2001

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

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

Bibliography: p. 277-295

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780520225732

Description

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.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780520228504

Description

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.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview Nancy Foner PART I * GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE 1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City Irma Watkins-Owens / 2. Where New York's West Indians Work Suzanne Model 3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow PART II * TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study Linda Basch 5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network Karen Fog Olwig PART III * RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION 6. "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity Reuel Rogers 7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation Mary C. Waters 8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke 9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with "Blackness" Milton Vickerman Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination Philip Kasinitz REFERENCES NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Details

• NCID: BA60506759
• ISBN:
  • 0520225732
  • 0520228502
• LCCN: 00046711
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 304 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F128.9.W54
  • DC21 : 305.896/97290747
  • DC21 : 305.89697290747
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Blacks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Blacks -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York -- Congresses
  • LCSH : West Indian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses
  • LCSH : West Indian Americans -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Congresses
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- Congresses
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
  • LCSH : West Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Black people -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Black people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses