"These superb essays illuminate the fascinating process of
absorbing West Indian immigrants into New York City's multicultural
but racially divided social fabric... They explore how gender,
transnational networks, class, economic restructuring, and above
all racial stereotyping have affected these black immigrants as
they struggle for a better life and how their struggles have in
turn influenced the contours of the larger society. The result is a
model of multi-disciplinary analysis."--John Mollenkopf, co-author
of "Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century
"Islands in the City is a comprehensive collection of the recent
findings of the foremost scholars in this field. The premier
researchers on West Indians in New York City discuss migration from
historical, statistical, theoretical, and experiential points of
view. This volume will be used as a model for understanding
migration in other areas and it will have importance beyond its
field."--Wallace Zane, author of "Journeys to the Spiritual Lands:
The Natural History of a West Indian Religion
"Nancy Foner has pulled together excellent essays by the leading
scholars of the emerging study of West Indians in the United
States. Islands in the City is a welcome book because of its
informative essays on gender, occupation, and culture, to name but
a few."--David Reimers, co-author of "All the Nations Under Heaven:
An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City
"West Indians sit right at the center of the crucial divides of
race, class, nationality, nativity, gender, generation, and
identity. The insights of this book teach us much of what we need
to know about our changing nation."--Jennifer Hochschild, author of
"Facing Upto the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the
Nation
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