Islands in the City

West Indian Migration to New York

By: Nancy Foner (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 August 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"These superb essays illuminate the fascinating process of absorbing West Indian immigrants into New York City's multicultural but racially divided social fabric.... The result is a model of multidisciplinary analysis" - John Mollenkopf, coauthor of Place Matters; "Islands in the City is a comprehensive collection of the recent findings of the foremost scholars in this field. The premier researchers on West Indians in New York City discuss migration from historical, statistical, theoretical, and experiential points of view. This volume will be used as a model for understanding migration in other areas and it will have importance beyond its field." - Wallace Zane, author of Journeys to the Spiritual Lands; "Nancy Foner has pulled together excellent essays by the leading scholars of the emerging study of West Indians in the United States." - David Reimers, coauthor of All the Nations Under Heaven; "West Indians sit right at the center of the crucial divides of race, class, nationality, nativity, gender, generation, and identity. The insights of this book teach us much of what we need to know about our changing nation." - Jennifer Hochschild, author of Facing Up to the American Dream

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview	p. 1
Gender, Work, and Residence	p. 23
Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City	p. 25
Where New York's West Indians Work	p. 52
West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York	p. 81
Transnational Perspectives	p. 115
Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study	p. 117
New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network	p. 142
Race, Ethnicity, and the Second Generation	p. 161
"Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity	p. 163
Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation	p. 193
Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians	p. 216
Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with "Blackness"	p. 237
Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination	p. 257
References	p. 277
Notes on Contributors	p. 297
Index	p. 301
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