Islands in the city West Indian migration to New York

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This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview / Nancy Foner -- Gender, Work, and Residence -- Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City / Irma Watkins-Owens -- Where New York's West Indians Work / Suzanne Model -- West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York / Kyle D. Crowder, Lucky M. Tedrow -- Transnational Perspectives -- Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study / Linda Basch -- New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network / Karen Fog Olwig -- Race, Ethnicity, and the Second Generation -- "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity / Reuel Rogers -- Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation / Mary C. Waters -- Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians / Vilna F. Bashi Bobb, Averil Y. Clarke -- 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.