African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
273 p, Born of the union between African maroons and the Island Carib on colonial St. Vincent, and later exiled to Honduras, the Garifuna way of life combines elements of African, Island Carib, and colonial European culture. Beginning in the 1940s, this cultural matrix became even more complex as Garifuna began migrating to the United States, forming communities in the cities of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Moving between a village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras and the New York City neighborhoods of the South Bronx and Harlem, England traces the daily lives, experiences, and grassroots organizing of the Garifuna.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 150
Notes:
This project was designed to raise the consciousness of members of the African-Bahamian church through a series of lectures which focused upon the particularities of the African experience
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"
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
