Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Identity, Arena, and Performance: West Indians inSan Francisco Bay; 2 Performance and Meaning in West Indian ImmigrantIdentity: Public Displays of Self-Representation; 3 Promoters of Popular Culture; 4 Negotiating the Black-White Dichotomy: Marryingan African American; 5 Negotiating the Black-White Dichotomy: Images ofAfrican Americans; 6 Constructing an Immigrant Identity: Notions of aPermanent Foreigner; Epilogue: The Construction of Identity; References; Index; About the Author
Summary
As new immigrant communities continue to flourish in U.S. cities, their members continually face challenges of assimilation in the organization of their ethnic identities. West Indians provide a vibrant example. In West Indian in the West, Percy Hintzen draws on extensive ethnographic work with the West Indian community in the San Francisco Bay area to illuminate the ways in which social context affects ethnic identity formation. The memories, symbols, and images with which West Indians identify in order to differentiate themselves from the culture which surrounds them are distinct depending
