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Raising Brooklyn - Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community (Hardcover)
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Raising Brooklyn - Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community (Hardcover)
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Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon
and you will see black women with white children at every turn.
Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long
been a crucial component of New York's economy, providing childcare
for white middle- and upper-middleclass families. Raising Brooklyn
offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of these childcare
providers, examining the important roles they play in the families
whose children they help to raise. Tamara Mose Brown spent three
years immersed in these Brooklyn communities: in public parks,
public libraries, and living as a fellow resident among their
employers, and her intimate tour of the public spaces of gentrified
Brooklyn deepens our understanding of how these women use their
collective lives to combat the isolation felt during the workday as
a domestic worker. Though at first glance these childcare providers
appear isolated and exploited-and this is the case for many-Mose
Brown shows that their daily interactions in the social spaces they
create allow their collective lives and cultural identities to
flourish. Raising Brooklyn demonstrates how these daily
interactions form a continuous expression of cultural preservation
as a weapon against difficult working conditions, examining how
this process unfolds through the use of cell phones, food sharing,
and informal economic systems. Ultimately, Raising Brooklyn places
the organization of domestic workers within the framework of a
social justice movement, creating a dialogue between workers who
don't believe their exploitative work conditions will change and an
organization whose members believe change can come about through
public displays of solidarity.
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