Find below links to your weekly reading assignments.

Week 2:

Tues., Feb. 3

Vecoli–Immigrant Identity

Thurs., Feb. 5

Foner–One out of Three introduction

Kasinitz–The Next Generation Emerges

Week 3:

Tues., Feb. 10

Blood Relations Intro, Ch.1&2

Week 5:

Tues., Feb. 24

Parker, J. “Capital of the Caribbean”

Week 6:

Thurs. March 5

Schiller et al. “Theorizing Transnationalism”

Wilson and Coly, “Black is the Color of the Cosmos”

 

Week 7:

Tues. March 10

Foner–Introduction to Islands in the City

Olwig–NY in Global Family Network

Thurs. March 12

Tilly–Trust Networks

Week 8: 

Tues. March 17

Ho–Transnationalism as Gendered Process

Thurs. March 19

Rogers–Black Like Who?

Waters–Growing Up West Indian and African American

Week 9:

Thurs. March 26

Mullings and Trotz–Diaspora Option

Mandle–Migration in C’bean Integration and Development

Week 10:

Tues. March 31

Danticat–Create Dangerously and Other Side of the Water

Week 12:

Thurs. April 16

Lundy–Transnationalism in the Aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake: Reinforcing Ties and Second-Generation Identity

Week 13:

Thurs. April 22

Ray–J’ouvert in Brooklyn Carnival

Week 14:

Thurs. April 30

Wilcken–Sacred Music and Dance of Haitian Vodou

Week 15:

Tues. May 5

Johnson–‘Black Caribs Across Multiple Diasporic Horizons

Thurs. May 7

Sutton–Family Reunion Rituals of Afro-Caribbean T’national Families

Week 16

Tues. May 12

Potter, et al.–Young Returning Trinidadians in their Own Words