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Article: Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities.(Review) (book review)
- Article from:
- Social Forces
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Mary C. Waters. Harvard University Press, 1999. 413 pp. Cloth, $35.00.
Black Identities tells an extraordinary story of how West Indian immigrants and their children find themselves in America and struggle to become American. Based on in-depth interviews with 202 respondents (59 adult immigrants and 83 children of immigrants, along with a native-born sample of 25 whites, 29 blacks, and 6 others), numerous hours of field observations, and miscellaneous informal conversations, Mary Waters answers three important questions: How West Indian immigrants find their way in America and how America receives them? Why are they seemingly doing better than African ...