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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.
Price: $31.95
Pages: 312
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
15 August 2001
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520228504
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Nancy Foner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is the author of From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000) and The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (1994), among others. She is the editor of New Immigrants in New York (1987) and coeditor, with Rubén Rumbaut and Steven Gold, of Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2000).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview
Nancy Foner
PART I • GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE
1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City
Irma Watkins-Owens /
2. Where New York’s West Indians Work
Suzanne Model
3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York
Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow
PART II • TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study
Linda Basch
5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network
Karen Fog Olwig
PART III • RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION
6. “Black Like Who?” Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity
Reuel Rogers
7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation
Mary C. Waters
8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians
Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke
9. 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
REFERENCES
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview
Nancy Foner
PART I • GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE
1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City
Irma Watkins-Owens /
2. Where New York’s West Indians Work
Suzanne Model
3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York
Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow
PART II • TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study
Linda Basch
5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network
Karen Fog Olwig
PART III • RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION
6. “Black Like Who?” Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity
Reuel Rogers
7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation
Mary C. Waters
8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians
Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke
9. 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
REFERENCES
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX