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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community

Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community

Mose, Tamara R.

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0814791433
ISBN13: 9780814791431
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jan 24 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been a crucial component of New York's economy, providing childcare for white middle- and upper-middleclass families. Raising Brooklyn offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of these childcare providers, examining the important roles they play in the families whose children they help to raise. Tamara Mose Brown spent three years immersed in these Brooklyn communities: in public parks, public libraries, and living as a fellow resident among their employers, and her intimate tour of the public spaces of gentrified Brooklyn deepens our understanding of how these women use their collective lives to combat the isolation felt during the workday as a domestic worker.

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