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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.
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198 p, Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation, in both human and socio-economic terms, of the Haitian immigrant community in three boroughs of New York City.
Glazer,Nathan (Author) and Moynihan,Daniel P. (Author)
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Book, Whole
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1970
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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363 p, Discusses the problems minority groups have faced in New York City and each group's special characteristics. Section The Puerto Ricans includes "The Migration," "The Island-Centered Community," "The Mobile Element," "Lower Income," "The Next Generation:
Family, School, Neighborhood," "Culture, Contributions, Color."
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238 p, Focuses on the interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the 20th century. This is a study of black ethnic diversity and the creation of the Harlem Renaissance community.
Danticat,Edwidge (Author) and New York (Series Editor)
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Book, Whole
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1995
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Vintage Books
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At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her., 234 p
New York elected officials and foreign dignitaries from the Caribbean and Africa among them were state Sen. Johns Sampson, Assemblymen Clarence Norman Jr. and Nick Perry, Councilwoman Una Clarke, Comptroller Alan Hevesi, Councilman Ken Fisher as well as Jamaican Consul General Dr. Basil Bryan and former Trinidad and Tobago Consul General Babooram Rambissoon. CACCI's founder and president, Roy A. Hastick Sr., said those honored as year 2001 visionaries were "recognized for their willingness to take the risk and accept the challenge to start and operate a small business in today's economy."
2 vols, 602 p., Draws from a variety of fields and methodologies to study the art and ritual of Afro-Cuban religion in New Jersey and New York, as practiced by white and black Cubans from four periods of immigration/exile. It begins, however, by tracing the history of defining Lucumi (Cuban Yoruba) images, symbols, and institutions from the colonial period (ends 1898) through the first half of the 20th century. The balance of the dissertation focuses on the New York Metropolitan Area of the 1980s. The work explores how Afro-Cuban religion has evolved and flourished in relation to particular U.S. urban settings: how it has shaped and has been shaped by those settings, e.g., Union City, New Jersey and Manhattan.
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184 p, Contents: Introduction : Island sounds in the global city / Ray Allen & Lois Wilcken -- Buscando ambiente : Puerto Rican musicians in New York City, 1917-1940 / Ruth Glasser -- Representations of New York City in Latin music / Peter Manuel -- From transplant to transnational circuit : merengue in New York / Paul Austerlitz -- Recapturing history : the Puerto Rican roots of hip hop culture / Juan Flores -- "I am happy just to be in this sweet land of liberty" : the New York city calypso craze of the 1930s and 1940s / Donald Hill -- Community dramatized, community contested : the politics of celebration in the Brooklyn carnival / Philip Kasinitz -- Steel pan grows in Brooklyn : Trinidadian music and cultural identity / Ray Allen and Les Slater -- Moving the Big Apple : Tabou combo's diasporic dreams / Gage Averill -- The changing hats of Haitian staged folklore in New York City / Lois Wilcken.;
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The New York State Archives Latino/Hispanic Heritage Documentation Project aims to preserve and make accessible the documentary heritage of New York's Hispanic populations...migrants, immigrants, and descendants of people from Mexico, Central America, South America, Puerto Rico, and the rest of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean... Brazil and Spain.
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1 videocassette (52 min.)
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Describes the religion of voodooism and gives an account of its history in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Filmed in New York, the work contains interviews with participants and depictions of ceremonies;
New York, NY: Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Distributed in North America by Monthly Review Press
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151 p, "In this compact chronicle, Colombian journalist Hernando Calvo Ospina sorts through the savory mix of ingredients of salsa, which follows the tango, bossa nova, and reggae as the fourth significant urban dance rhythm to emerge in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and Latin and South American regions." (BNET);
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386 p., Boggs presents a history of salsa, showing how Afro-Cuban music was embraced in New York City, how it has undergone cycles of popularity, and how it has been replicated abroad. The text contains interviews with such key figures as Palladium Mambero and Ernie Ensley
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1 microfiche, This catalogue of the Lesser Antilles provides extensive and precise descriptions of approximately 1000 printed books and 1000 manuscripts that Walter Beinecke Jr collected over several decades and donated to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York (Google).;
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240 p., Survey and focus group sampling of students in high achieving schools compared to lower achieving schools were used to examine why there are fewer black men graduating from high schools in New York City as well as high schools around the country compared to other groups of students. Race is disaggregated in order to look at the difference in achievement rates for African American, black Hispanic, African, and Afro-Caribbean men.
