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156 P., Focusing on the immigration of West Indians to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, these seven one-act radio plays vividly capture the loneliness and isolation that can be felt in one of the world's largest cities. With characteristic humor and poignancy, these stories touch on the dreams and disappointments of both the young and old as they face racial and class differences in a sprawling, urban London.
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406 p, In the first systematic study of the politics and culture of the Afro-Caribbean migration to the U.S., historian Wintson James explains the enigma of political radicalism among Caribbean migrants. This important work shows that streams of Afro-Caribbean migration constituted a vibrant link between African Americans and the continent from which their ancestors were wrenched centuries ago. 256 pp;
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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
Reviews several books regarding Cuban history which focused on the areas of race, identities, ideology and nationhood. Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution, by Lisa Brock and Digna Castaneda; `El Directorio Central de las Sociedades Negras de Cuba, 1886-1894,'by Oilda Hevia Lanier; Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940, by Robin Moore.;