Islands in the city [[electronic resource] ] : West Indian migration to New York / / edited by Nancy Foner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/97290747 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FonerNancy <1945-> |
Soggetto topico |
West Indian Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions
West Indian Americans - Race identity - New York (State) - New York Black people - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions Black people - Race identity - New York (State) - New York Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th 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 |
ISBN |
9786612762475
1-59734-688-8 0-520-93580-2 1-282-76247-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782950103321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 | ||
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The managed hand : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / / Miliann Kang |
Autore | Kang Miliann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 391.6 |
Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans - Social conditions
Asian Americans -- Social conditions Beauty culture - Social aspects - United States Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States Beauty shops - Social aspects - United States Beauty, Personal - Social aspects - United States Korean American women - Employment - United States Korean American women -- Employment -- United States Manicuring - Social aspects - United States United States - Race relations United States -- Race relations Women immigrants - Employment - United States Women immigrants -- Employment -- United States Nail art (Manicuring) - Social aspects - United States Art, Architecture & Applied Arts Arts & Crafts |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american women
art asian american asian immigrants asian women beauty service work body services body class differences consumption divisions of race ethnography gender issues gender immigrant workers interviews korean women manicures nail industry nail salons new york city nonfiction pampering race issues self care self expression service careers social science united states white middle class women women working class |
ISBN |
1-280-09501-6
9786613520449 0-520-94565-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. "There's No Business Like the Nail Business" -- Two. "What Other Work Is There?" -- Three. Hooked on Nails -- Four. "I Just Put Koreans and Nails Together" -- Five. Black People "Have Not Been the Ones Who Get Pampered" -- Six. "You Could Get a Fungus" -- Conclusion. What is a man I cure worth? -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790598203321 |
Kang Miliann
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The managed hand : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / / Miliann Kang |
Autore | Kang Miliann |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 391.6 |
Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans - Social conditions
Asian Americans -- Social conditions Beauty culture - Social aspects - United States Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States Beauty shops - Social aspects - United States Beauty, Personal - Social aspects - United States Korean American women - Employment - United States Korean American women -- Employment -- United States Manicuring - Social aspects - United States United States - Race relations United States -- Race relations Women immigrants - Employment - United States Women immigrants -- Employment -- United States Nail art (Manicuring) - Social aspects - United States Art, Architecture & Applied Arts Arts & Crafts |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american women
art asian american asian immigrants asian women beauty service work body services body class differences consumption divisions of race ethnography gender issues gender immigrant workers interviews korean women manicures nail industry nail salons new york city nonfiction pampering race issues self care self expression service careers social science united states white middle class women women working class |
ISBN |
1-280-09501-6
9786613520449 0-520-94565-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. "There's No Business Like the Nail Business" -- Two. "What Other Work Is There?" -- Three. Hooked on Nails -- Four. "I Just Put Koreans and Nails Together" -- Five. Black People "Have Not Been the Ones Who Get Pampered" -- Six. "You Could Get a Fungus" -- Conclusion. What is a man I cure worth? -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824217303321 |
Kang Miliann
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Metropolis in the making [[electronic resource] ] : Los Angeles in the 1920s / / edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 979.4/94052 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SittonTom <1949->
DeverellWilliam Francis |
Soggetto topico |
City planning - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Nineteen twenties |
Soggetto non controllato |
1920s
academic automobile automotive history cars cinema studies city of angels essay anthology essay collection essays film studies film finance financial hollywood illustrated industrial industry los angeles metro metropolis movie studios photographs race issues racism racist scholarly southern california suburban sprawl suburban suburbs urban vehicles |
ISBN |
1-283-27711-5
9786613277114 0-520-93552-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Metropolitan spaces -- pt. 2. Metropolitan idenities -- pt. 3. Faith in the metropolis -- pt. 4. Metropolis -- pt. 5. The end : metropolitan finale. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781311703321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 | ||
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Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s / / edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 979.4/94052 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SittonTom <1949->
DeverellWilliam Francis |
Soggetto topico |
City planning - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Nineteen twenties |
Soggetto non controllato |
1920s
academic automobile automotive history cars cinema studies city of angels essay anthology essay collection essays film studies film finance financial hollywood illustrated industrial industry los angeles metro metropolis movie studios photographs race issues racism racist scholarly southern california suburban sprawl suburban suburbs urban vehicles |
ISBN |
1-283-27711-5
9786613277114 0-520-93552-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Metropolitan spaces -- pt. 2. Metropolitan idenities -- pt. 3. Faith in the metropolis -- pt. 4. Metropolis -- pt. 5. The end : metropolitan finale. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820260803321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 | ||
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Mexican New York [[electronic resource] ] : transnational lives of new immigrants / / Robert Courtney Smith |
Autore | Smith Robert C. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.8/7471072/090511 |
Soggetto topico |
Mexican Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions
Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions Transnationalism |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american children anthropology sociology assimilation chicano studies demographic studies egalitarianism first generation immigrants gender roles globalization home villages immigrant experience mexican american communities mexican americans mexican gangs mexican immigrants mexico modern history new york nonfiction political leaders political lives race issues social history social mobility transnational lives transnationalism |
ISBN |
0-520-93860-7
1-59875-804-7 1-282-76320-2 9786612763205 1-4237-3145-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Transnational Life in Ethnographic Perspective -- 2. Dual Contexts for Transnational Life -- 3. "Los Ausentes Siempre Presentes" -- 4. The Defeat of Don Victorio -- 5. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life in the First Generation -- 6. "In Ticuani, He Goes Crazy" -- 7. "Padre Jesús, Protect Me" -- 8. "I'll Go Back Next Year" -- 9. Defending Your Name -- 10. Returning to a Changed Ticuani -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Coda: The Mexican Educational Foundation of New York -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Methodological Appendix -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777562203321 |
Smith Robert C. <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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Mexican New York : transnational lives of new immigrants / / Robert Courtney Smith |
Autore | Smith Robert C. <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.8/7471072/090511 |
Soggetto topico |
Mexican Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions
Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions Transnationalism |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american children anthropology sociology assimilation chicano studies demographic studies egalitarianism first generation immigrants gender roles globalization home villages immigrant experience mexican american communities mexican americans mexican gangs mexican immigrants mexico modern history new york nonfiction political leaders political lives race issues social history social mobility transnational lives transnationalism |
ISBN |
0-520-93860-7
1-59875-804-7 1-282-76320-2 9786612763205 1-4237-3145-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Transnational Life in Ethnographic Perspective -- 2. Dual Contexts for Transnational Life -- 3. "Los Ausentes Siempre Presentes" -- 4. The Defeat of Don Victorio -- 5. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life in the First Generation -- 6. "In Ticuani, He Goes Crazy" -- 7. "Padre Jesús, Protect Me" -- 8. "I'll Go Back Next Year" -- 9. Defending Your Name -- 10. Returning to a Changed Ticuani -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Coda: The Mexican Educational Foundation of New York -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Methodological Appendix -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996247978703316 |
Smith Robert C. <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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MeXicana encounters [[electronic resource] ] : the making of social identities on the borderlands / / Rosa Linda Fregoso |
Autore | Fregoso Rosa Linda |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.48/868720721 |
Collana | American crossroads |
Soggetto topico |
Mexican American women - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions
Women - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions Women in popular culture - Mexican-American Border Region Women in motion pictures Mexican American women - Ethnic identity Group identity - Mexican-American Border Region Popular culture - Mexican-American Border Region |
Soggetto non controllato |
american borderlands
chicanas chicano studies ciudad juarez contemporary experience cultural politics cultural practices cultural studies disappearances domestic violence ethnographers ethnography family and identity feminism feminists gender and sexuality gender roles gender studies latina experience latinx studies mexicana representation mexicanas mexicans murders nonfiction race issues social identity social justice social studies symbolism transborder |
ISBN |
1-282-76296-6
0-520-93728-7 9786612762963 1-59734-746-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Toward A Planetary Civil Society -- 2. Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities -- 3. Gender, Multiculturalism, And The Missionary Position On The Borderlands -- 4. The Chicano Familia Romance -- 5. Familia Matters -- 6. "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines -- 7. Haunted By Miscegenation -- 8. Ghosts Of A Mexican Past -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783056003321 |
Fregoso Rosa Linda
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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The myth of the noble savage [[electronic resource] /] / Ter Ellingson |
Autore | Ellingson Terry Jay |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
Disciplina | 301/.01 |
Soggetto topico |
Anthropology - Philosophy
Noble savage stereotype Noble savage stereotype in literature Racism in anthropology - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
19th century academic anthropologists anthropology case study colonialist contemporary debunked feudalist folklore internet legal issues modern world mythology natural life natural world nature noble savage online political politics race issues racial equality racism racist research rousseau savages scholarly stereotype study |
ISBN |
0-520-92592-0
1-282-75887-X 1-59734-767-1 9786612758874 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. THE BIRTH OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE -- II. AMBIGUOUS NOBILITY: ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE ON "SAVAGES" FROM LESCARBOT TO ROUSSEAU -- III. DISCURSIVE OPPOSITIONS: THE "SAVAGE" AFTER ROUSSEAU -- IV. THE RETURN OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE -- V.THE NOBLE SAVAGE MEETS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782953003321 |
Ellingson Terry Jay
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 | ||
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Post-nationalist American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Carlos Rowe |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RoweJohn Carlos |
Soggetto topico |
Nationalism - Study and teaching - United States
Cultural pluralism - Study and teaching - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
academic america american culture american history american studies college professor essay anthology essay collection globalism historical history professor history teacher migration nationalism nationalist north atlantic post nationalist professor race issues race racism scholarly syllabi syllabus teacher united states history united states us history wartime |
ISBN |
1-59734-826-0
0-520-92526-2 1-282-75885-3 9786612758850 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies -- Creating the Multicultural Nation -- Rethinking (and Reteaching) the Civil Religion in Post-Nationalist American Studies -- Foreign Affairs -- Making Comparisons -- Race, Nation, Equality -- Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848 -- My Border Stories -- How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783457203321 |
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2000 | ||
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