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Table of Contents List of Tables List of Illustrations Acknowledgement Introduction Strangers at the Gate Immigrant Political Incorporation in a New Century Race and Political Incorporation Afro-Caribbean Immigrants The Political Incorporation of Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Overview of the Book Chapter One Beyond Black and White Theories of Political Incorporation Approaches to Studying Political Incorporation The Pluralist Standard and the African-American Exception The Pluralist Model The African-American Exception Non-White Immigrants The Limitations of the Pluralist and Minority Group Models Contemporary Research on Non-White Immigrants The Minority Group Approach The Neo-Pluralist Approach The Political Learning Approach: Home and Host Country Cues Chapter Two "Good" Blacks and "Bad" Blacks? The Caribbean Comes to New York "Good" Blacks and "Bad" Blacks? The Empirical Evidence of the Afro-Caribbean Success Story Self-Employment Earnings Education Employment Reconsidering the Afro-Caribbean Success Story Afro-Caribbean Residential Patterns Afro-Caribbean Residential Enclaves Conclusion A Note on the Research Sample Chapter Three Letting Sleeping Giants Lie Signs of Mobilization among Afro-Caribbean Elites Non-Participation among Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Socioeconomic Status and Citizenship Length of Stay and Citizenship Pluralist Predictions and the Reality of New York Party Politics Party Gatekeeping and Benign Neglect Brooklyn Racial Bias? Preventing Countermobilization Conclusion Chapter Four Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and African Americans Racially Bound and Ethnically Splintered The Minority Group Theoretical Perspective The Prima Facie Case for an Afro-Caribbean and African-American Alliance New York's Racial Divisions Racial Commonalities between Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans A Coalition That Never Came Patterns of Conflict The Limits of Racial Solidarity Why Interest Conflicts over Descriptive Representation Electoral Institutions The Absence of an Institutional Mechanism The Future of Race-Based Coalitions Chapter Five Afro-Caribbean Sojourners Ties to the Home Country and the Hope of Return: A Historical Overview The Impact on Naturalization Home Country Ties Then and Now Afro-Caribbean Sojourners Home Country Attachments and Obligations Reinforcing Home Country Ties in New York Sustaining the Hope of Return: Myth or Dream Deferred Political Consequences of the Sojourner Outlook Putting Off Citizenship Home Country Ties and Political Participation Will Participation Follow Naturalization Why Afro-Caribbeans Finally Choose Citizenship Conclusion Chapter Six Black Like Who? Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans And the Politics of Group Identity The Politics of African-American Racial Group Identity Racial Group Identification and Consciousness African-American Institutional Networks and Racial Group Consciousness Group Identity among Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Ethnic and Racial Identification Racial Group Consciousness Differences in Collective Memory Social and Institutional Networks Transnational Identity Exit Option Linked Racial Fate Conclusion Chapter Seven Black Ethnic Options Afro-Caribbean Ethnic Politics: Assessing the Minority Group Perspective Symbolic Recognition and Access to Power Substantive Policy Issues Race and Immigration Policy Unconventional Political Tactics Radical-Reformist, Race-Based Campaigns The Neo-Pluralist Alternative Home Country Cues Home Country Experiences Political Strategies Policy Views on Government Intervention in the Economy Conclusion Conclusion Reconsidering Political Incorporation and Race Home Country Cues and the Political Incorporation Process Reconsidering the Pluralist Model Reconsidering the Minority Group Model Diversity within Black Politics Black Exceptionalism Appendix A Methodology Appendix B Interview Schedules Notes Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government.
Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Ethnic identity.
Blacks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government.
Blacks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Race identity.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Political activity.
Political participation -- New York (State) -- New York.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
Racism -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-.