Immigration and the Political Economy of Home - West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992

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List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Im/migration, Race, and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945{-}1992
PART ONE: Im/migration History
2. Playing for Keeps: A Brief Colonial History of Carnival and Powwow
3. Im/migration Policy, the National Romance, and the Poetics of World Domination

PART TWO: Performing Memory, Inventing Tradition: Colonial Optics and Im/migrant Locations
4. Performative Spaces, Urban Politics, and the Changing Meanings of Home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis
5. Sounds of Brooklyn: Pan Yards as Im/migrant Social Spaces
6. Gender and Generation Down the Red Road
7. Afterword. Political Economies of Home: Citizenship and Denizenship
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Rachel Buff is Assistant Professor in the History Department and the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University.

Summary

A study of festivals in two American communities that launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, it compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian American Day Carnival in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Buff, Rachel Ida Buff
• Assisted by: Rachel Buff (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2001
• EAN: 9780520221215
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22121-5
• No. of pages: 255
• Series: American Crossroads; American Crossroads
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / United States / General, Family & health, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas