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Index African American New Yorkers: employment of, 69–74; niche earnings of, 75–78; West Indian relations with, 11, 13–15, 54, 176, 186–188 African Americans: and black institutional networks , 172–174, 179–180; class differences of, 173–174, 213; linked racial fate outlook of, 169–171; politics of, 168–174, 188–190; and racial group identity, 168–174, 177; socialization in black institutions, 173; West Indian relations with, 243, 246 Afro-Caribbean immigrants. See West Indian New Yorkers American identity of immigrants, 200–201, 202–205 Asian immigrants, 211–212 Assimilation of immigrants in America, 202–205 Banana crisis, 136 Basch, Linda, 263 Bashi Bobb, Vilna, 264 Bishop, Maurice, 118, 130, 134 Black Americans: class consciousness of, 164–165; differentiation criteria, 164; economic divisions of, 164–165; political differentiation of, 164–165, 188–190; and socioeconomic failure, 234 “Blackness”: in America, defined, 238–239; in New York, defined, 12, 13; “one-drop rule” of, 238-239; redefined in the future, 242–243, 246; in West Indies, defined, 12, 13, 239–242 Black New Yorkers: causes for division among, 163, 164; division between native- and foreign-born, 163–165, 174; population distribution of, 93–95 Blaize, Herbert, 117–119, 130 Briggs, Cyril, 26 Brooklyn: in the 1950s, 150–154; racial division of, 156; transnational immigrant networks in, 180–182 Bryce-Laporte, Roy, 257, 273 Caribbean-born New Yorkers. See West Indian New Yorkers Caribbean migration. See West Indian migration Chaney, Elsa, 263 Child fostering by West Indian New Yorkers, 39–42 Chinese immigrants, 211, 267 Chiquita corporation, 136 Clarke, Una, 135–138 Class, identity development influenced by, 195, 197, 203 Class consciousness of Jamaican New Yorkers, 146, 150, 153–154 Communist party, 47 Copperbelt (northern Rhodesia) studies, 121 Crown Heights riots, 11 Deterritorialized nation-states, 119–120, 123–124, 130–137 Dole corporation, 136 Domingo, W.A., 26 Dual citizenship, 9, 137–138 Education: and racial inequality, 220, 224; as transnational project, 126–127 Ellison, Ralph, 257 Emigration regulation, 28 Employment: in administration work, 71, 72; in apparel, 69; in banking, 69; in communications , 69; data on West Indian New Yorkers, 54–55, 266; in department stores, 70; ethnic niche, defined, 52; in government work, 79; in hospitals, 70, 72; industry employment of West Indian New Yorkers, 58–67; and job changing, 223; niche distributions of West Indian New Yorkers, 67–74; niche earnings of West Indian New Yorkers, 74–78; in postal service, 71; in private households, 70, 72, 78; public-sector, 261; in repair, 69; in schools, 70; in transportation, 68, 69, 78; in trucking, 69; in warehousing, 69; West Indian , post–civil rights era, 6; of West Indian women, 35–38 Enclave locations in New York, 105–108, 152–153 Ethnicity: and economic success, 204; of West Indian New Yorkers, 10–16, 81, 85–86, 111–112, 164–167, 186–188, 194–195, 197, 199–200 European immigrants, 185, 202, 205, 210–211, 213 Family as a West Indian social unit, 126. See also West Indian Families Farrakhan, Louis, 262 Garvey, Marcus, 46–47 Garvey movement, 46–47, 240 Gender identity and race issues, 201–202 Glick Schiller, Nina, 124, 263 Grenadians: Bishop, Maurice, 118, 130; Blaize, Herbert, 117–119, 130; family ties of, 126–127; and migration history, 124–126; political community of, defined, 132; political independence of, 125; and state practices that maintain the nation-state, 133–134; transnational economic activities of, 128; transnational identities of, 130–137; transnational organizational ties of, 128–130; transnational practices of, 117–120, 123–135, 137 Harrison, Hubert, 26 Hart-Celler immigration reforms, 262 Haynes, George, 56 Hispanics, 211 Howard Beach incident, 11 Immigration law (U.S.), 5, 150, 262 Index of dissimilarity as measure of racial segregation , 88–93 Intermarriage between blacks and whites, 242–244 Jamaicans: British immigrants compared to U.S. immigrants, 268; as Brooklyn residents, 150–154; career choice customs of, 147, 152; enclave locations in New York, 105, 107, 108, 152–153; and job opportunities in home society, 148; middle-class educational ambitions of, 146–148; transnational practices of, 10, 157 Johnson, James W., 259 Lorde, Audre, 27, 30, 39 Marshall, Paule, 27, 39, 259 McKay, Claude, 258–259 Migration, defined, 145 Migration traditions in Caribbean island societies , 3, 125 Mintz, Sidney, 264 Mixed-race individuals, 238–240, 243–244 Moore, Richard B., 26 Mulattoes, 238–239 Nation-states: and globalization, 123; importance of, 123–124; and politics and identity, 134–137 New York (New...
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