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"
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
