About the Book
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.
Islands in the City
West Indian Migration to New York
by Nancy Foner (Editor)
Price: $31.95 / £27.00
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780520228504
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 13 tables, 6 line figures
About the Author
Nancy Foner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is the author of From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000) and The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (1994), among others. She is the editor of New Immigrants in New York (1987) and coeditor, with Rubén Rumbaut and Steven Gold, of Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2000).
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview
Nancy Foner
PART I • GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE
1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City
Irma Watkins-Owens /
2. Where New York’s West Indians Work
Suzanne Model
3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York
Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow
PART II • TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study
Linda Basch
5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network
Karen Fog Olwig
PART III • RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION
6. “Black Like Who?” Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity
Reuel Rogers
7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation
Mary C. Waters
8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians
Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke
9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with “Blackness”
Milton Vickerman
Conclusion. Invisible No More?
West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination
Philip Kasinitz
REFERENCES
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview
Nancy Foner
PART I • GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE
1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City
Irma Watkins-Owens /
2. Where New York’s West Indians Work
Suzanne Model
3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York
Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow
PART II • TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study
Linda Basch
5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network
Karen Fog Olwig
PART III • RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION
6. “Black Like Who?” Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity
Reuel Rogers
7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation
Mary C. Waters
8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians
Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke
9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with “Blackness”
Milton Vickerman
Conclusion. Invisible No More?
West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination
Philip Kasinitz
REFERENCES
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Reviews
"These superb essays illuminate the fascinating process of absorbing West Indian immigrants into New York City's multicultural but racially divided social fabric... They explore how gender, transnational networks, class, economic restructuring, and above all racial stereotyping have affected these black immigrants as they struggle for a better life and how their struggles have in turn influenced the contours of the larger society. The result is a model of multi-disciplinary analysis."—John Mollenkopf, co-author of Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century
"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: The Natural History of a West Indian Religion
"Nancy Foner has pulled together excellent essays by the leading scholars of the emerging study of West Indians in the United States. Islands in the City is a welcome book because of its informative essays on gender, occupation, and culture, to name but a few."—David Reimers, co-author of All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City
"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: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
"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: The Natural History of a West Indian Religion
"Nancy Foner has pulled together excellent essays by the leading scholars of the emerging study of West Indians in the United States. Islands in the City is a welcome book because of its informative essays on gender, occupation, and culture, to name but a few."—David Reimers, co-author of All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City
"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: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation