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2. Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the new second generation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- 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"
3. 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
4. Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Logan,John R. (Author), Zhang,Wenquan (Author), and Alba,Richard D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Albany, NY: American Sociological Association
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Sociological Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 67(2) : 299
- Notes:
- Looks at a number of ethnic neighborhoods including Afro Caribbean and Dominican communities. The predominant post-1965 immigrant groups have established distinctive settlement areas in many American cities and suburbs
5. 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
6. 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