City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
(Part of the Caribbean Studies Series Series)
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Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as "windows" into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 150,000 black immigrants who arrived in the United States during the first-wave of Caribbean immigration to New York hailed from the English-speaking Caribbean--mainly Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad. Arriving at the height of the Industrial Revolution...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1496813065
ISBN13:9781496813060
Release Date:April 2017
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:298 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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