05005nam 2201165 a 450 991078295010332120230207223400.097866127624751-59734-688-80-520-93580-21-282-76247-810.1525/9780520935808(CKB)1000000000004253(EBL)224255(OCoLC)475930369(SSID)ssj0000184202(PQKBManifestationID)11169956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184202(PQKBWorkID)10199754(PQKB)10666203(MiAaPQ)EBC224255(OCoLC)49570326(MdBmJHUP)muse30502(DE-B1597)519646(DE-B1597)9780520935808(Au-PeEL)EBL224255(CaPaEBR)ebr10064718(CaONFJC)MIL276247(EXLCZ)99100000000000425320000906d2001 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrIslands in the city[electronic resource] West Indian migration to New York /edited by Nancy FonerBerkeley University of California Pressc20011 online resource (313 p.)Based on a conference entitled West Indian migration to New York : historical, contemporary, and transnational perspectives, which was held at the Research Institute for the Study of Man in April 1999.0-520-22573-2 0-520-22850-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York An Overview --1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City --2. Where New York's West Indians Work --3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York --4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study --5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network --6. "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity --7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation --8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians --9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with "Blackness" --Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination --References --Notes on Contributors --IndexThis 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.West Indian AmericansNew York (State)New YorkSocial conditionsCongressesWest Indian AmericansRace identityNew York (State)New YorkCongressesBlack peopleNew York (State)New YorkSocial conditionsCongressesBlack peopleRace identityNew York (State)New YorkCongressesImmigrantsNew York (State)New YorkSocial conditionsCongressesNew York (N.Y.)Social conditionsCongressesNew York (N.Y.)Race relationsCongressesNew York (N.Y.)Emigration and immigrationCongressesWest IndiesEmigration and immigrationCongresses20th century.academic.afro caribbean.blackness.career.caribbean.ethnicity.gender studies.gender.global.immigrants.immigration.indian immigrants.islands.labor.migration.national identity.new york city.new york.political.politics.race issues.race.racism.regional.scholarly.second generation.social networks.transnational.west indian.womens issues.womens studies.work.West Indian AmericansSocial conditionsWest Indian AmericansRace identityBlack peopleSocial conditionsBlack peopleRace identityImmigrantsSocial conditions305.896/97290747Foner Nancy1945-148771MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782950103321Islands in the city3701472UNINA