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Author Buff, Rachel, 1961-

Title Immigration and the political economy of home : West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 / Rachel Buff.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 240 pages cm).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American crossroads ; 5
American crossroads ; 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-229) and index.
Contents Im/migration, Race, and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992: Im/migration History -- Playing for Keeps -- Im/migration Policy, the National Romance, and the Poetics of World Domination, 1945-1965: Performing Memory, Inventing Tradition -- Performative Spaces, Urban Politics, and the Changing Meanings of Home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis -- Sounds of Brooklyn -- Gender and Generation Down the Red Road.
Summary Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian American Day Carnival in New York.
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Subject Powwows -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Powwows.
Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Urban Indians -- North America -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America.
Ethnicity.
Carnival -- New York (State) -- New York.
Carnival.
New York (State) -- New York.
West Indians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Ethnic identity.
West Indians.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Buff, Rachel, 1961- Immigration and the political economy of home. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520211634 (DLC) 00064930 (OCoLC)45008664
ISBN 9780520923928 (electronic book)
0520923928 (electronic book)
0585389934 (electronic book)
9780585389936 (electronic book)
0520211634 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520211636 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520221214 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780520221215 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1597346713
9781597346719