4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York An Overview 1
5. Part I. Gender, Work, and Residence
6. 1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City 25
7. 2. Where New York’s West Indians Work 52
8. 3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York 81
9. Part II. Transnational Perspectives
10. 4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study 117
11. 5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network 142
12. Part III. Race, Ethnicity, and the Second Generation
13. 6. “Black Like Who?” Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity 163
14. 7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation 193
15. 8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians 216
16. 9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with “Blackness” 237
17. Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination 257
18. References 277
19. Notes on Contributors 297
20. Index 301