Publication
University of California Press (2001), Edition: First, 320 pages
ISBN
0520228502 / 9780520228504
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CONTENTS:
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.
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.