Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900 1930

by Irma Watkins-Owens

Book Overview

In Blood Relations, Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1930, 40,000 Caribbean immigrants settled in New York City and joined with African Americans to create the unique ethnic community of Harlem. Watkins-Owens confronts issues of Caribbean immigrant and black American relations, placing their interaction in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253210488
• ISBN13: 9780253210487
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher