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2. Black identities: West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities
- 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
3. Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York
- 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
4. The gatekeeping behind meritocracy: voices of NYC high school students
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Garcia,Arlene Melody (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- New York: City University of New York
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 240 p., Survey and focus group sampling of students in high achieving schools compared to lower achieving schools were used to examine why there are fewer black men graduating from high schools in New York City as well as high schools around the country compared to other groups of students. Race is disaggregated in order to look at the difference in achievement rates for African American, black Hispanic, African, and Afro-Caribbean men.