Collection: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) / Subject Term: Identity (self awareness) and Social conditions / Language: English

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Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Waters,Mary C. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1999
Published:: New York Cambridge Mass.: Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 413 p, The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children. She finds that when the immigrants first arrive, their knowledge of English, their skills and contacts, their self-respect, and their optimistic assessment of American race relations facilitate their integration into the American economic structure

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Foner,Nancy (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2001
Published:: Berkeley: University of California Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 304 p, Contents: pt. 1. 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 and Lucky M. Tedrow -- pt. 2. Transnational perspectives. Transnational social relations and the politics of national identity: an eastern Caribbean study / Linda Basch ; New York as a locality in a global family network / Karen Fog Olwig -- pt. 3. 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 and 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

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