African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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
