Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992

by Rachel Buff

Book Overview

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 as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian American Day Carnival in New York. She demonstrates the historical, theoretical, and cultural links between two groups who are rarely thought of together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520221214
• ISBN13: 9780520221215
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"