Islands in the City

Islands in the City brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the distinctive experiences of West Indian migrants in New York, America's quintessential immigrant city.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview

1

(22)

Nancy Foner

PART I. GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE

23

(92)

Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City

25

(27)

Irma Watkins-Owens

Where New York's West Indians Work

52

(29)

Suzanne Model

West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York

81

(34)

Kyle D. Crowder

Lucky M. Tedrow

PART II. TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

115

(46)

Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study

117

(25)

Linda Basch

New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network

142

(19)

Karen Fog Olwig

PART III. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION

161

(96)

``Black Like Who?'' Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity

163

(30)

Reuel Rogers

Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation

193

(23)

Mary C. Waters

Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians

216

(21)

Vilna F. Bashi Bobb

Averil Y. Clarke

Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with ``Blackness''

237

(20)

Milton Vickerman

Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination

257

(20)

Philip Kasinitz

References

277

(20)

Notes on Contributors

297

(4)

Index

301

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