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2. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Buff,Rachel (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
- Location:
- 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
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. Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- 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"