Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview
Nancy Foner 
PART I • GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE 
1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City
Irma Watkins-Owens /
2. Where New York’s West Indians Work
Suzanne Model 
3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York
Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow 
PART II • TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 
4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study
Linda Basch 
5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network
Karen Fog Olwig 
PART III • RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION 
6. “Black Like Who?” Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity
Reuel Rogers 
7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation
Mary C. Waters 
8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians
Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke 
9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with “Blackness”
Milton Vickerman 
Conclusion. Invisible No More?
West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination
Philip Kasinitz 
REFERENCES 
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS  
INDEX 

About the Author

Nancy Foner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is the author of From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000) and The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (1994), among others. She is the editor of New Immigrants in New York (1987) and coeditor, with Ruben Rumbaut and Steven Gold, of Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2000).

Reviews

"These superb essays illuminate the fascinating process of absorbing West Indian immigrants into New York City's multicultural but racially divided social fabric.... The result is a model of multidisciplinary analysis" - John Mollenkopf, coauthor of Place Matters; "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; "Nancy Foner has pulled together excellent essays by the leading scholars of the emerging study of West Indians in the United States." - David Reimers, coauthor of All the Nations Under Heaven; "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 Up to the American Dream