Reporting on Ethnic Communities: Resources for Specific Communities

In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, combined the skills of the historian, social scientist, and the reporter to trace the New York black experience from the earliest settlements on Chatham Square during the pre-revolutionary period to the triumphant achievements of Harlem in the 1920s.

Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.

For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem's history, as gentrification encroaches, the author untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy. Examining the epic Harlem of official history and the personal Harlem that begins at her front door, she introduces us to a wide variety of characters, past and present.

Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. Khandelwal explores the ways in which this world has evolved over four decades. How did this highly diverse ethnic group form an identity and community? Drawing on her extensive interviews with immigrants, Khandelwal examines the transplanting of Indian culture onto the Manhattan and Queens landscapes.

Vivek Baldâe's meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America's most iconic neighborhoods of color, including Harlem. Their stories of ingenuity and intermixture challenge assumptions about assimilation and reveal cross-racial affinities beneath the surface of early twentieth-century America.

Proceedings of the AAARI conference on Asian senior citizens: The well being of Asian American senior citizens, held May 12, 2006, Baruch College CUNY, Newman Vertical Campus, East 25th Street, New York, NY.

This book presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of NYC demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. This book combines unique research by the author with the theoretical discourse of Latin American and Caribbean scholars.

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.

Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, presented by the National Jewish Book Council   Best Nonfiction Book of 2012 presented by Kirkus   This three volume set of original research pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world. Overseen by noted scholar Deborah Dash Moore, City of Promises offers the largest Jewish city in the world, in the United States, and in Jewish history its first comprehensive account.

Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive impact on the shape of liberal politics long before black-white racial identity politics entered the political lexicon.

Ukrainian immigrants are an example of the politics of identity and the collision of diverse identities in their adaptation to the American society. Because Ukrainians were stateless nation for many years, defining Ukrainian national identity is not easy. However, Ukrainian identity is paramount both for newly arrived immigrants (as a result of binary identity fostered in the former Soviet Union) and Diaspora members.

An overview of generations of Italians in the Big Apple, weaving together numerous stories from different epochs and different backgrounds. The author, Maurizio Molinari, is the United States correspondent for the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Over the past few decades, a wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within a "mainstream" and supposedly pure "Anglo" America, people referred to as Hispanics or Latinos have been part and parcel of New York since the beginning of the city's history.

New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the topic in all its multifaceted aspects, from Jim Crow baseball in the first half of the twentieth century to hip hop and ethno-racial politics, from Latinas and labor unions to advertising and Latino culture, from Cuban cuisine to the language of signs in New York City. Together the articles map out the main conceptions of Latino identity as well as the historical process of Latinization of New York.

In the mid-1980s, a relatively new immigrant stream from Brazil began to arrive in New York City. Like other immigrant populations, many of the new arrivals were undocumented, but, unlike other groups, most were from middle-class backgrounds and few wished to extend their stay beyond a few years.

Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions—historical, racial, political, and economic—that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and first-person accounts of Puerto Rican life in New York, this book illuminates the rich history of a group that is still largely invisible to many scholars. Also available online.

Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study explains how relations between immigrant men and women and their U.S.-born children are renegotiated in the context of migration to New York and temporary return visits to Mexico.

Christian Krohn-Hansen explores Dominican immigrants' economic and political practices and their constructions of identity and belonging. He focuses especially on Dominicans in the small business sector, in particular the bodega and supermarket and taxi and black car industries. This work employs business ethnography to demonstrate how Dominican businesses over the past three decades have made a substantial mark on New York neighborhoods and the city's political economy.