Immigration and the Political Economy of Home [[electronic resource] ] : West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454571903321
• Autore: Buff Rachel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-520-92392-8; 1-59734-671-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: American crossroads Immigration and the political economy of home
• Disciplina: 305.897/307765793; 394.2608900973
• Soggetti: Carnival; Indians of North America; Indians of North America - Urban residence - Minnesota - Minneapolis; Powwows; Powwows-- Minnesota-- Minneapolis; West Indians; Powwows - Urban residence - Minnesota - Minneapolis; Indians of North America - Ethnic identity - Minnesota - Minneapolis; Carnival - Social conditions - New York (State) - New York; West Indians - New York - New York (State); Immigrants - New York - New York (State); Ethnic & Race Studies; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Immigration, Race, and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992; 2. Playing for Keeps; 3. Im/migration Policy, the National Romance, and the Poetics of World Domination, 1945-1965; 4. Performative Spaces, Urban Politics, and ; the Changing Meanings of Home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis; 5. Sounds of Brooklyn: Pan Yards as Im/migrant Social Spaces; 6. Gender and Generation Down the Red Road; Afterword; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian American Day Carnival in New York.