| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview / Nancy Foner -- Gender, Work, and Residence -- Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City / Irma Watkins-Owens -- Where New York's West Indians Work / Suzanne Model -- West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York / Kyle D. Crowder, Lucky M. Tedrow -- Transnational Perspectives -- Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study / Linda Basch -- New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network / Karen Fog Olwig -- Race, Ethnicity, and the Second Generation -- "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity / Reuel Rogers -- Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation / Mary C. Waters -- Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians / Vilna F. Bashi Bobb, Averil Y. Clarke -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
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 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
West Indian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses
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West Indian Americans -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York -- Congresses
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Black people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses
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Black people -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York -- Congresses
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Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Black people -- Race identity
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Black people -- Social conditions
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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West Indian Americans -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Congresses
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New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- Congresses
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New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
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West Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- New York
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West Indies
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Foner, Nancy, 1945-
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| LC no. |
2021696293 |
| ISBN |
9780520935808 |
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0520935802 |
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0585391637 |
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9780585391632 |
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9780520225732 |
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0520225732 |
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9780520228504 |
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0520228502 |
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1597346888 |
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9781597346887 |
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9786612762475 |
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6612762470 |
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1282762478 |
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9781282762473 |
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