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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED294967 AUTHOR: Sutton, Constance R., Ed.; Chaney, Elsa M., Ed.


TITLE: Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural
Dimensions.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1987
NOTE: 383 p.; Photographs will not reproduce clearly.
AVAILABILITY: 88-9; $3.00 shipping and handling).

ABSTRACT: This book comprises the following papers
discussing Caribbean life in New York City: (1) The Context
of Caribbean Migration (Elsa M. Chaney); (2) The
Caribbeanization of New York City and the Emergence of a
Transnational Socio-Cultural System (Constance R. Sutton);
(3) New York City and Its People: An Historical Perspective
Up to World War II (David M. Reimers); (4) New York City
and the New Caribbean Immigration: A Contextual Statement
(Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte); (5) Where Caribbean Peoples Live
in New York City (Dennis Conway and Ualthan Bigby); (6)
Black Immigrant Women in "Brown Girl, Brownstones" (Paule
Marshall); (7) Migration and West Indian Racial and Ethnic
Consciousness (Constance R. Sutton and Susan Makiesky
Barrow); (8) West Indians in New York City and London: A
Comparative Analysis (Nancy Foner); (9) West Indian Child
Fostering: Its Role in Migrant Exchanges (Isa Maria Solo);
(10) Garifuna Settlement in New York: A New Frontier
(Nancie L. Gonzalez); (11) The Politics of
Caribbeanization:
Vincentians and Grenadians in New York (Linda G. Basch);
(12) All in the Same Boat? Unity and Diversity in Haitian
Organizing in New York (Nina Glick-Schiller, Josh DeWind,
Marie Lucie Brutus, Carolle Charles, Georges Fouron, and
Antoine Thomas); (13) Language and Identity: Haitians in
New York City (Susan Buchanan Stafford); (14) Puerto Rican
Language and Culture in New York City (Juan Flores, John
Attinasi, and Pedro Pedraza, Jr.); (15) Dominican Family
Networks and United States Immigration Policy: A Case Study
(Vivian Garrison and Carol I. Weiss); (16) The Linkage
between the Household and Workplace of Dominican Women in
the U.S. (Patricia R. Pessar); (17) Formal and Informal
Associations: Dominicans and Columbians in New York (Saskia
Sassen-Koob); (18) A Comment on Dominican Ethnic
Associations (Eugenia Georges); (19) Response to Comment
(Saskia Sassen-Koob); (20) Afro-Caribbean Religions in New
York City: The Case of Santeria (Steven Gregory); and (21)
The Puerto Rican Parade and West Indian Carnival: Public
Celebrations in New York City (Philip Kasinitz and Judith
Freidenberg-Herbstein). Photographs, information about the
contributors, and an index are included. (BJV)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Child-Rearing; Cultural-Background;
Cultural-Differences; Cultural-Pluralism; Dominicans-;
Ethnicity-; Foreign-Nationals; Haitians-; Hispanic
Americans; Puerto-Ricans; Racial-Identification; Social
Science-Research; Urban-Demography
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Acculturation-; *Cross-Cultural-Studies;
*Cultural-Traits; *Migrants-; *Social-Support-Groups

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