Kasinitz,Philip (Author), Mollenkopf,John M. (Author), and Waters,Mary C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
New York: Russell Sage Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
419 p, Includes Nancy López' "Unraveling the race-gender gap in education: second-generation Dominican men's high school experiences"; Nicole P. Marwell's "Ethnic and postethnic politics in New York City: the Dominican second generation"; Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield's "'We're just black': the racial and ethnic identities of second-generation West Indians in New York" /; and Natasha Warikoo's "Cosmopolitan ethnicity: second-generation Indo-Caribbean identities"
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
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211 p., Based on interviews with over one hundred Jamaicans in New York, this book presents first-hand accounts of racial experiences among West Indian immigrants living in New York City. It provides an in-depth view of what it means to be West Indian in the United States.
Obiakor,Festus E. (Author) and Grant,Patrick A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Huntington, NY: Nova Science Pub
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
196 p, Foreign born African Americans frequently find themselves in precarious situations. They confront three intriguing questions: How Black are they? How much racism do they endure? How do they survive in spite of the odds? In reality, they are Blacks who are Black enough to encounter problems that other Blacks in America experience. However, they also understand that they must succeed in a competitive complex society like America. On the one hand, they are grateful to be in America; but on the other hand, they wonder why they must cross so many rubicons to achieve their goals.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
240 p, Contents: Im/migration, Race, and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 --; Im/Migration History --; Playing for Keeps: A Brief Colonial History of Carnival and Powwow --; Im/migration Policy, the National Romance, and the Poetics of World Domination, 1945-1965 --; Performing Memory, Inventing Tradition: Colonial Optics and Im/migrant Locations --; Performative Spaces, Urban Politics, and the Changing Meanings of Home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis --; Sounds of Brooklyn: Pan Yards as Im/migrant Social Spaces --; Gender and Generation Down the Red Road --; Afterword. Political Economies of Home: Citizenship and Denizenship
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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
Cordero-Guzman,Hector R. (Author), Smith,Robert C. (Author), and Grosfoguel,Ramon (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Philadelphia: Temple University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
304 p, Includes Pamela M. Graham's "Political incorporation and re-incorporation: simultaneity in the Dominican migrant experience"; Dennis Conway's "Gendered and racialized circulation-migration: implications for the poverty and work experience of New York's Puerto Rican women"; Philip Kasinitz and Milton Vickerman's "Ethnic niches and racial traps: Jamaicans in the New York regional economy"; and Vilna Bashi Bobb's "Neither ignorance nor bliss: race, racism, and the West Indian immigrant experience"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
158 p, Argues that engaging the Caribbean diaspora and the massive waves of migration from the region that have punctuated its history, involves not only understanding communities in host countries and the conflicted identities of second generation subjectivities, but also interpreting how these communities interrelate with and affect communities at home.
