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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780084003321

Autore

Buff Rachel

Titolo

Immigration and the political economy of home [[electronic resource] ] : West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992

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

Powwows - Minnesota - Minneapolis

Urban Indians - 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

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.