Sudarkasa,Niara (Author) and Nwachuku,Levi A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
288 p, Includes Maghan Keita's "Linking precolonial Africa and Pre-Columbian America: the implications and their impact on Old World/New World scholarship," Janice- Marie McDonaldand's "An afrocentric approach to Afro-Latino literature" and Richard Allsopp's "African systems in Caribbean communication."
Profiles an Asian-Caribbean-American on American racial politics. Dr. M. Godfrey Mungal, born in Trinidad and now teaches at Stanford University, was an Indian laborer brought to the Caribbean by plantation owners after the abolition of slavery.
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
About the residents and conduct of life of the people living in "Little Havana or La Saguesera" at Bade County in Miami, Florida. It is a little community, which residents comprise mainly of Cubans. In the said community about 8,000 of businesses were owned by Cubans and five Bade County banks have Cuban presidents.
A personal and political analysis of Eric Williams' contribution to nationalist ideas and to the way nationalism was perceived and was directly or indirectly beneficial to many of Mohammed's generation
