City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

by Tammy L Brown and Tammy L. Brown

Book Overview

Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as "windows" into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 150,000 black immigrants who arrived in the United States during the first-wave of Caribbean immigration to New York hailed from the English-speaking Caribbean--mainly Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad. Arriving at the height of the Industrial Revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496813065
• ISBN13: 9781496813060
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"