Umfang:
Online-Ressource (viii, 304 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520228502
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0520225732
Inhalt:
This 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
Anmerkung:
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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview; PART I: GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE; 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; PART II: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES; 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; PART III: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION
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6. "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity7. 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520228504
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Islands in the City : West Indian Migration to New York
Sprache:
Englisch
