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Product Identifiers

PublisherIndiana University Press

ISBN-100253210488

ISBN-139780253210487

eBay Product ID (ePID)65739

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBlood Relations : Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930

Publication Year1996

SubjectEthnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, United States / General, Sociology / Urban, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorIrma Watkins-Owens

SeriesBlacks in the Diaspora Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight24 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-037260

Dewey Edition20

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.8/009747/1

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Intraracial Ethnicity in Harlem, 1900-1930 2 Panama Silver Meets Jim Crow 3 "On to Harlem" 4 Churches, Benevolent Associations, and Ethnicity 5 Politics and the Struggle for Autonomy 6 Stepladder to Community 7 Marcus Garvey: "Negro Subject of Great Britain" 8 Ethnic and Race Enterprise 9 The Underground Entrepreneur 10 Harlem Writers and Intraracial Ethnicity 11 Conclusion: Blood Relations in the Black Metropolis Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index

SynopsisThrough interviews, census data, and biography, Watkins-Owens shows how immigrants and southern African American migrants settled together in railroad flats and brownstones, worked primarily at service occupations, often lodged with relatives or home people, and strove to "make it" in New York., In Blood Relations, Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1930, 40,000 Caribbean immigrants settled in New York City and joined with African Americans to create the unique ethnic community of Harlem. Watkins-Owens confronts issues of Caribbean immigrant and black American relations, placing their interaction in the context of community formation. She draws the reader into a cultural milieu that included the radical tradition of stepladder speaking; Marcus Garvey's contentious leadership; the underground numbers operations of Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs; and the literary renaissance and emergence of black journalists. Through interviews, census data, and biography, Watkins-Owens shows how immigrants and southern African American migrants settled together in railroad flats and brownstones, worked primarily at service occupations, often lodged with relatives or home people, and strove to "make it" in New York.

LC Classification NumberF128.9.C27W38 1996