Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States

Contents

Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: The Diversity and Mobility of Immigrant Arts 1 Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernández-Kelly 2 Migrants and the Transformation of Philadelphia’s Cultural Economy 23 Mark J. Stern, Susan C. Seifert, and Domenic Vitiello 3 A Howl to the Heavens: Art in the Life of First- and Second-Generation Cuban Americans 52 Patricia Fernández-Kelly 4 Inside and Outside the Box: The Politics of Arab American Identity and Artistic Representations 72 Amaney Jamal 5 Desis in and out of the House: South Asian Youth Culture in the United States before and after 9/11 89 Sunaina Maira 6 The Intimate Circle: Finding Common Ground in Mariachi and Norteño Music 109 Clifford R. Murphy 7 GenerAsians Learn Chinese: The Asian American Youth Generation and New Class Formations 125 Deborah Wong 8 Unfinished Journey: Mexican Migration through the Visual Arts 155 Gilberto Cárdenas v Contents contents vi 9 Immigrant Art as Liminal Expression: The Case of Central Americans 176 Cecilia Menjívar 10 Negotiating Memories of War: Arts in Vietnamese American Communities 197 Yen Le Espiritu 11 Miracles on the Border: The Votive Art of Mexican Migrants to the United States 214 Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey 12 Visual Culture and Visual Piety in Little Haiti: The Sea, the Tree, and the Refugee 229 Terry Rey and Alex Stepick References 249 Notes on Contributors 273 Index 277 ...