Immigration and the Political Economy of Home [[electronic resource] ] : West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 |
Autore | Buff Rachel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina |
305.897/307765793
394.2608900973 |
Collana | American crossroads Immigration and the political economy of home |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-520-92392-8
1-59734-671-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454571903321 |
Buff Rachel | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stories from blue latitudes : Caribbean women writers at home and abroad / / edited by Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Emeryville, CA, : Seal Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource ([8], 334 p. ) |
Disciplina | 823/.01089287/09729 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
NunezElizabeth
SparrowJennifer |
Soggetto topico |
Short stories, Caribbean (English)
Caribbean fiction (English) - Women authors West Indians - Foreign countries Women - Caribbean Area Short stories, Caribbean (English) - Women authors - Foreign countries Caribbean fiction (English) - Caribbean Area West Indians Women English Literature English Languages & Literatures |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "Just riffing" (a poem) / Esther Phillips -- Introduction -- "In a window" an excerpt from the novel At the Full and Change of the Moon / Dionne Brand -- "Sleeping's beauty and the Prince Charming" / Erna Brodber -- "Boat man" / Margaret Cezair-Thompson -- "Transactions" / Michelle Cliff -- "Shadowboxing" / Merle Collins -- "Tatiana, mon amour" / Edwidge Danticat -- ; "The entertainment" / Zee Edgell -- "In the minor key" an excerpt from the novel The Swinging Bridge / Ramabai Espinet -- "Mother's collection" / Donna Hemans -- "Limbo island" / Merle Hodge -- "Shift" / Nalo Hopkinson -- "Baywatch an' de preacher" an excerpt from the novel Tide Running / Oonya Kempadoo -- "Columbus in chains" an excerpt from the novel Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid -- "Sugar" / Sharon Leach -- "Hortense" an excerpt from the novel Small Island / Andrea Levy -- "To Da-duh, in memoriam" / Paule Marshall -- "Firstborn" / Alecia McKenzie -- "Salt" an excerpt from the novel Dragons Cry / Tessa McWatt -- g "The parrot and Descartes" / Pauline Melville -- "Blood" / Pamela Mordecai -- "Zuela" an excerpt from the novel Bruised Hibiscus / Elizabeth Nunez -- "Stop frame" / M. NourbeSe Philip -- "SMILE (God loves you)" / Velma Pollard -- g "The good life" / Patricia Powell -- ; "The pain tree" / Olive Senior -- "Volcano" / Yvonne Weekes. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248132103316 |
Emeryville, CA, : Seal Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Tracing your Caribbean ancestors : a National Archives guide / / Guy Grannum |
Autore | Grannum Guy |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [London] : , : National Archives |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 220 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 929.38611 |
Soggetto topico | West Indians |
ISBN |
1-4081-7887-7
1-4081-7886-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- C -- E -- M -- S -- W -- INTRODUCTION -- Overview -- Further reading -- 1 FIRST STEPS -- 1.1 Be prepared -- 1.2 How do I start my research? -- 1.3 Surnames -- 1.4 The Internet -- 1.5 Archives and libraries -- 1.6 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- 1.7 The National Archives (UK) -- 1.8 Digitised sources -- 1.9 Ancestral origins -- 1.10 Further reading and useful websites -- 2 RECORDS OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE -- 2.1 Original correspondence -- 2.2 Entry books -- 2.3 Acts -- 2.4 Sessional papers -- 2.5 Government gazettes -- 2.6 Miscellanea -- 2.7 Registers of correspondence -- 2.8 Registers of out-letters -- 2.9 Other records -- 2.10 Further reading -- 3 MIGRATION TO THE CARIBBEAN -- 3.1 Emigration: general records -- 3.2 Indentured servants -- 3.3 Transportation -- 3.4 Slave trade -- 3.5 American loyalists -- 3.6 Liberated Africans -- 3.7 Indentured labourers -- 4 LIFE CYCLE RECORDS -- 4.1 Records of births, marriages and deaths -- 4.2 Censuses and other listings -- 4.3 Wills and grants of administration -- 5 LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS -- 5.1 Land grants -- 5.2 Maps and plans -- 5.3 Plantation records -- 5.4 Further reading -- 6 MILITARY AND RELATED RECORDS -- 6.1 Army -- 6.2 Royal Navy -- 6.3 Royal Marines -- 6.4 Royal Air Force -- 6.5 Merchant Navy -- 7 SLAVES AND SLAVE HOLDERS -- 7.1 Slave Registry -- 7.2 Slave Compensation Commission -- 7.3 Amelioration -- 7.4 Manumissions (grants of freedom) -- 7.5 Acts on the status, condition and treatment of slaves -- 7.6 Further reading -- 8 THE COLONIAL CIVIL SERVANT -- 8.1 Further reading -- 9 MIGRATION FROM THE WEST INDIES -- 9.1 Migration to the United Kingdom -- 9.2 West Indian migration outside the United Kingdom -- 10 BRITISH WEST INDIES RESOURCES -- 10.1 British West Indies, general -- 10.2 Anguilla.
10.3 Antigua and Barbuda -- 10.4 Bahamas -- 10.5 Barbados -- 10.6 Bay Islands -- 10.7 Belize (formerly British Honduras) -- 10.8 Bermuda -- 10.9 British Virgin Islands -- 10.10 Cayman Islands -- 10.11 Dominica -- 10.12 Federation of the West Indies -- 10.13 Grenada -- 10.14 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) -- 10.15 Jamaica -- 10.16 Leeward Islands -- 10.17 Montserrat -- 10.18 Nevis -- 10.19 St Christopher (St Kitts) -- 10.20 St Lucia -- 10.21 St Vincent and the Grenadines -- 10.22 Tobago -- 10.23 Trinidad -- 10.24 Turks and Caicos Islands -- 10.25 Windward Islands -- 11 RECORDS OF THE NON-BRITISH WEST INDIES -- 11.1 Cuba -- 11.2 Denmark -- 11.3 Dominican Republic (formerly Santo Domingo) -- 11.4 France -- 11.5 Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue) -- 11.6 Honduras -- 11.7 Netherlands -- 11.8 Panama -- 11.9 Spain -- 11.10 Sweden -- 11.11 United States -- Useful addresses -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786108603321 |
Grannum Guy | ||
[London] : , : National Archives | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tracing your Caribbean ancestors : a National Archives guide / / Guy Grannum |
Autore | Grannum Guy |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [London] : , : National Archives |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 220 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 929.38611 |
Soggetto topico | West Indians |
ISBN |
1-4081-7887-7
1-4081-7886-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- C -- E -- M -- S -- W -- INTRODUCTION -- Overview -- Further reading -- 1 FIRST STEPS -- 1.1 Be prepared -- 1.2 How do I start my research? -- 1.3 Surnames -- 1.4 The Internet -- 1.5 Archives and libraries -- 1.6 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- 1.7 The National Archives (UK) -- 1.8 Digitised sources -- 1.9 Ancestral origins -- 1.10 Further reading and useful websites -- 2 RECORDS OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE -- 2.1 Original correspondence -- 2.2 Entry books -- 2.3 Acts -- 2.4 Sessional papers -- 2.5 Government gazettes -- 2.6 Miscellanea -- 2.7 Registers of correspondence -- 2.8 Registers of out-letters -- 2.9 Other records -- 2.10 Further reading -- 3 MIGRATION TO THE CARIBBEAN -- 3.1 Emigration: general records -- 3.2 Indentured servants -- 3.3 Transportation -- 3.4 Slave trade -- 3.5 American loyalists -- 3.6 Liberated Africans -- 3.7 Indentured labourers -- 4 LIFE CYCLE RECORDS -- 4.1 Records of births, marriages and deaths -- 4.2 Censuses and other listings -- 4.3 Wills and grants of administration -- 5 LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS -- 5.1 Land grants -- 5.2 Maps and plans -- 5.3 Plantation records -- 5.4 Further reading -- 6 MILITARY AND RELATED RECORDS -- 6.1 Army -- 6.2 Royal Navy -- 6.3 Royal Marines -- 6.4 Royal Air Force -- 6.5 Merchant Navy -- 7 SLAVES AND SLAVE HOLDERS -- 7.1 Slave Registry -- 7.2 Slave Compensation Commission -- 7.3 Amelioration -- 7.4 Manumissions (grants of freedom) -- 7.5 Acts on the status, condition and treatment of slaves -- 7.6 Further reading -- 8 THE COLONIAL CIVIL SERVANT -- 8.1 Further reading -- 9 MIGRATION FROM THE WEST INDIES -- 9.1 Migration to the United Kingdom -- 9.2 West Indian migration outside the United Kingdom -- 10 BRITISH WEST INDIES RESOURCES -- 10.1 British West Indies, general -- 10.2 Anguilla.
10.3 Antigua and Barbuda -- 10.4 Bahamas -- 10.5 Barbados -- 10.6 Bay Islands -- 10.7 Belize (formerly British Honduras) -- 10.8 Bermuda -- 10.9 British Virgin Islands -- 10.10 Cayman Islands -- 10.11 Dominica -- 10.12 Federation of the West Indies -- 10.13 Grenada -- 10.14 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) -- 10.15 Jamaica -- 10.16 Leeward Islands -- 10.17 Montserrat -- 10.18 Nevis -- 10.19 St Christopher (St Kitts) -- 10.20 St Lucia -- 10.21 St Vincent and the Grenadines -- 10.22 Tobago -- 10.23 Trinidad -- 10.24 Turks and Caicos Islands -- 10.25 Windward Islands -- 11 RECORDS OF THE NON-BRITISH WEST INDIES -- 11.1 Cuba -- 11.2 Denmark -- 11.3 Dominican Republic (formerly Santo Domingo) -- 11.4 France -- 11.5 Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue) -- 11.6 Honduras -- 11.7 Netherlands -- 11.8 Panama -- 11.9 Spain -- 11.10 Sweden -- 11.11 United States -- Useful addresses -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822779603321 |
Grannum Guy | ||
[London] : , : National Archives | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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