Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York

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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / vii Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview Nancy Foner /  PART I • GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE / 23 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 / 115 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 / 161 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 /  vi CONTENTS ...