Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York /
This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview / Nancy Foner
- 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, Lucky M. Tedrow
- Transnational Perspectives
- Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study / Linda Basch
- New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network / Karen Fog Olwig
- 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, 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.