{"product_id":"islands-in-the-city-west-indian-migration-to-new-york-paperback","title":"Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Foner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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 \u003ci\u003ePlace Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIslands 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 \u003ci\u003eJourneys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of a West Indian Religion\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy 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 \u003ci\u003eAll the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFacing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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 \u003ci\u003ePlace Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eJourneys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of a West Indian Religion\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eAll the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eFacing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Foner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration \u003c\/i\u003e(2000) and \u003ci\u003eThe Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), among others. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Immigrants in New York\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and coeditor, with Rubén Rumbaut and Steven Gold, of \u003ci\u003eImmigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.01 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133476049031,"sku":"9780520228504","price":57.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/24d18f8fca223042764008ff593ab04c.webp?v=1732634631","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/islands-in-the-city-west-indian-migration-to-new-york-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}