Caribbean Life in New York City

Download or read book Caribbean Life in New York City written by Constance R. Sutton and published by Center Migration Studies. This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the following papers discussing Caribbean life in New York City: (1) The Context of Caribbean Migration (Elsa M. Chaney); (2) The Caribbeanization of New York City and the Emergence of a Transnational Socio-Cultural System (Constance R. Sutton); (3) New York City and Its People: An Historical Perspective Up to World War II (David M. Reimers); (4) New York City and the New Caribbean Immigration: A Contextual Statement (Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte); (5) Where Caribbean Peoples Live in New York City (Dennis Conway and Ualthan Bigby); (6) Black Immigrant Women in "Brown Girl, Brownstones" (Paule Marshall); (7) Migration and West Indian Racial and Ethnic Consciousness (Constance R. Sutton and Susan Makiesky-Barrow); (8) West Indians in New York City and London: A Comparative Analysis (Nancy Foner); (9) West Indian Child Fostering: Its Role in Migrant Exchanges (Isa Maria Solo); (10) Garifuna Settlement in New York: A New Frontier (Nancie L. Gonzalez); (11) The Politics of Caribbeanization: Vincentians and Grenadians in New York (Linda G. Basch); (12) All in the Same Boat? Unity and Diversity in Haitian Organizing in New York (Nina Glick-Schiller, Josh DeWind, Marie Lucie Brutus, Carolle Charles, Georges Fouron, and Antoine Thomas); (13) Language and Identity: Haitians in New York City (Susan Buchanan Stafford); (14) Puerto Rican Language and Culture in New York City (Juan Flores, John Attinasi, and Pedro Pedraza, Jr.); (15) Dominican Family Networks and United States Immigration Policy: A Case Study (Vivian Garrison and Carol I. Weiss); (16) The Linkage between the Household and Workplace of Dominican Women in the U.S. (Patricia R. Pessar); (17) Formal and Informal Associations: Dominicans and Columbians in New York (Saskia Sassen-Koob); (18) A Comment on Dominican Ethnic Associations (Eugenia Georges); (19) Response to Comment (Saskia Sassen-Koob); (20) Afro-Caribbean Religions in New York City: The Case of Santeria (Steven Gregory); and (21) The Puerto Rican Parade and West Indian Carnival: Public Celebrations in New York City (Philip Kasinitz and Judith Freidenberg-Herbstein). Photographs, information about the contributors, and an index are included. (BJV)