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2. Caribbean women gather to promote good health
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- J. Zamgba Browne (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-04-06
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 16
- Notes:
- Yvonne J. Graham, CEO of the Caribbean Women's Health Association, discussed the health disparities that continue to plague racial and ethnic groups in the New York City metropolitan area at the Brooklyn-based group's annual benefit reception. The CWHA's chief mission is to respond to problems affecting immigrants from the Caribbean region.
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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"