Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York

Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Linda Basch is Executive Director of the National Council for Research on Women. She previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wagner College, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Manhattan College, where she was also a faculty member in the Anthropology Department, and Director of Special Academic Programs at New York University. She spent a decade directing programs on social and economic development and gender issues at the United Nations and has conducted fieldwork in the Caribbean, Africa, Iran, and the United States on issues of migration, race, ethnicity, nationalism, and gender. She has written widely on these topics, with works including the coauthored Nations Unbound : Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States (Gordon and Breach, 1994) and the coedited Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity and Nationalism Reconsidered (New York Academy of Sciences, 1998) and Transforming Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for an Engaged Anthropology (American Anthropological Association, 1999). Vilna Bashi Bobb, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1997. She has taught at Northwestern University, where she was a faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research. She was also a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation focused on two social networks of West Indian immigrants in New York City. Her current research project, for which she received a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, compares the West Indian immigrant experiences in New York City, London, Toronto, and Montreal. Her most recent publications include “Neither Ignorance  nor Bliss: West Indian Perspectives on American Racism,” in the forthcoming Migration , Transnationalism, and the Political Economy of New York (Temple University Press, 2001), and “Racial Categories Matter Because Racial Hierarchies Matter,” in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Averil Clarke is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, “Black Women, Silver Spoons: How African American Women Manage Social Mobility, Fertility, and Nuptiality Decisions ,” focuses on the relationship between economic mobility and family formation among African American women. She has also done research on the transition from welfare to work in Philadelphia and Pensacola, Florida. Kyle Crowder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the State University of New York at Albany, where he also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. His research on the residential patterns of West Indian blacks has recently appeared in the International Migration Review. He has published articles on urban politics, family demography, residential mobility and segregation, and the consequences of neighborhood context in a number of journals , including Social Forces, the American Sociological Review, and the Journal of Marriage and the Family. He is currently conducting research on the interactive effects of family composition and neighborhood mobility on adolescent well-being. Nancy Foner, Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Purchase, has conducted research among Jamaicans in rural Jamaica, London, and New York. She is the author or editor of eight books, including Status and Power in Rural Jamaica: A Study of Educational and Political Change (Teachers College Press, 1973), Jamaica Farewell: Jamaican Migrants in London (University of California Press, 1978), New Immigrants in New York (Columbia University Press, 1987), and The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (University of California Press, 1994). Her most recent books are From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000) and Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited with Rubén Rumbaut and Steven Gold (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000). She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and is a member of the International Migration Committee of the Social Science Research Council. Philip Kasinitz holds a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race (winner of the 1996 Thomas and Znaniecki Award; Cornell University Press, 1992), the editor of Metropolis : Center and Symbol of Our Times (New York University Press, 1995), and coeditor of The Handbook on International Migration: The American Experience (Russell Sage Foundation, 1999). He is currently working on a long-term ethnographic and his-  CONTRIBUTORS...