UID:
edocfu_9959231588602883
Format:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-92392-8
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1-59734-671-3
Series Statement:
American crossroads ; 5
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-21163-4
Language:
English
