Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York
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Bibliographic Information
Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York
University of California Press, c2001
- : cloth
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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
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: 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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