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West Indian in the West: Self-Representations in an Immigrant Community

West Indian in the West: Self-Representations in an Immigrant Community

Hintzen, Percy

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0814736009
ISBN13: 9780814736005
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Nov 1 2001
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

As new immigrant communities continue to flourish in U.S. cities, their members continually face challenges of assimilation in the organization of their ethnic identities. West Indians provide a vibrant example.
In West Indian in the West, Percy Hintzen draws on extensive ethnographic work with the West Indian community in the San Francisco Bay area to illuminate the ways in which social context affects ethnic identity formation. The memories, symbols, and images with which West Indians identify in order to differentiate themselves from the culture which surrounds them are distinct depending on what part of the U.S. they live in. West Indian identity comes to take on different meanings within different locations in the United States.

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