LEADER 03821nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910815432303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-0935-4 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814709351 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054843 035 $a(EBL)865359 035 $a(OCoLC)703596454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865359 035 $a(DE-B1597)547178 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814709351 035 $a(OCoLC)1175635716 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054843 100 $a20100819d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRaising Brooklyn $enannies, childcare, and Caribbeans creating community /$fTamara Mose Brown 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-9143-3 311 0 $a0-8147-9142-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. The Neighborhood --$t1. West Indians Raising New York --$t2. Public Parks and Social Spaces --$t3. Indoor Public Play Spaces --$t4. A Taste of Home --$t5. Mobility for the Nonmobile --$t6. Where?s My Money? --$t7. Organizing Resistance --$tConclusion --$tAppendix A. Methods --$tAppendix B. Demographic Information --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aStroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been a crucial component of New York?s economy, providing childcare for white middle- and upper-middleclass families. Raising Brooklyn offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of these childcare providers, examining the important roles they play in the families whose children they help to raise. Tamara Mose Brown spent three years immersed in these Brooklyn communities: in public parks, public libraries, and living as a fellow resident among their employers, and her intimate tour of the public spaces of gentrified Brooklyn deepens our understanding of how these women use their collective lives to combat the isolation felt during the workday as a domestic worker. Though at first glance these childcare providers appear isolated and exploited?and this is the case for many?Mose Brown shows that their daily interactions in the social spaces they create allow their collective lives and cultural identities to flourish. Raising Brooklyn demonstrates how these daily interactions form a continuous expression of cultural preservation as a weapon against difficult working conditions, examining how this process unfolds through the use of cell phones, food sharing, and informal economic systems. Ultimately, Raising Brooklyn places the organization of domestic workers within the framework of a social justice movement, creating a dialogue between workers who don?t believe their exploitative work conditions will change and an organization whose members believe change can come about through public displays of solidarity. 606 $aNannies$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aPublic spaces$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aWest Indians$zNew York (State)$zNew York 607 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.) 615 0$aNannies 615 0$aPublic spaces 615 0$aWest Indians 676 $a302.3/4089960729 700 $aBrown$b Tamara Mose$01757283 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815432303321 996 $aRaising Brooklyn$94195086 997 $aUNINA