Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992

Abstract

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Im/migration, Race, and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945{-}1992 PART ONE: Im/migration History 2. Playing for Keeps: A Brief Colonial History of Carnival and Powwow 3. Im/migration Policy, the National Romance, and the Poetics of World Domination PART TWO: Performing Memory, Inventing Tradition: Colonial Optics and Im/migrant Locations 4. Performative Spaces, Urban Politics, and the Changing Meanings of Home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis 5. Sounds of Brooklyn: Pan Yards as Im/migrant Social Spaces 6. Gender and Generation Down the Red Road 7. Afterword. Political Economies of Home: Citizenship and Denizenship Notes References Index