The first step in undertaking an archival survey project is to learn about the community / organization that will be surveyed.  Fortunately, there is a wealth of information about the English-speaking Caribbean. This bibliography reflects some of the resources that were found in our research as well as titles recommended by some members of the Project Advisory Committee.  By no means do we present this as a definitive listing, but we do believe that many will find this a useful starting point for their own research.

Books

Allen, Ray, and Lois Wilcken, eds. Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and
    Identity in New York.   New York: New York Folklore Society and Institute for Studies in American
    Music, 1998.

Ayerst, Morley. The British West Indies: The Search for Self-Government. New York: New York UP,
    1960.

Berrol, Selma.  The Empire City: New York and its People, 1624 - 1996.  Westport, Connecticut:
    Praeger, 1997.

Bogen, Elizabeth.  Caribbean Immigrants in New York City: A Demographic Study.  New York:
    New York City Department of City Planning, 1988.

Bogen, Elizabeth.  Immigration in New York.  New York: Praeger, 1987.

Bonnett, Aubrey.  Institutional Adaptation of West Indian Immigrants To America: An Analysis of
    Rotating Credit Associations.   Washington: UP of America, 1981.

Bryce-Laporte, Roy S. and Delores M. Mortimer, eds.  Caribbean Immigration to the United States.
    Washington, DC:  Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution, 1976.

Bryce-Laporte, Roy S. and Delores M. Mortimer, eds.  Female Immigrants to the United States: Caribbean,
    Latin American, and African Experiences.  Washington, DC:  Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies,
    Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

Bryce-Laporte, Roy Simon assisted by Delores M. Mortimer and Stephen R. Couch, eds.  Sourcebook on the New
    Immigration.  Brunswick, NJ:  Transaction Books, 1979-1980.

Campbell, Horace.  Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney.  3rd ed.
    Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990.

Caribbean Women's Health Association Inc. Caribbean American Family Conference.  The
     Caribbean-American Family, Issues and Implications for Public Policy:  May 10-12, 1990.
    New York: 1990.

Carrasquillo, Angela and Eva E. Sandis. Schooling, Job Opportunities, and Ethnic Mobility
    Among Caribbean Youth in the United States.  New York:  Fordham University, 1982.

City of New York.  Community Council of Greater New York.  New Immigrants in New York City:
    Summaries of Research in Progress and Recent Reports.  New York: City of New York, 1979.

Chisolm, Shirley. Shirley Chisolm: Unbought and Unbossed. New York: Avon Books, 1970.

Clarke, Velta J., and Emmanuel Riviere, eds.  Establishing New Lives: Selected Readings on
    Caribbean Immigrants in New York City.  Brooklyn, New York: Caribbean Research Center,
    Medgar Evers College, CUNY, 1989.

Couch, Stephen R. and Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte, eds. Quantitative Data and Immigration Research.
    Washington, DC:  Smithsonian Institution, REIIS Research Notes No. 2, 1979.

Etzioni, Amitai.  The Spirit of Community.  New York: Crown, 1993.

Foner, Nancy.  Jamaican Migrants: A Comparative Analysis of the New York and  London
    Experience.  New York: New York University, 1983.

Foner, Nancy, ed.  New Immigrants in New York.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot.  Cambridge:  MIT Press, 1963.

Gosine, Mahin.  Caribbean East Indians in America:  Assimilation, Adaptation and Group
    Experience.  New York:  Windsor Press, 1990.

Green, Charles, and Basil Wilson. The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City:
    Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation.  New York: Praeger, 1989.

Handlin, Oscar.  The Newcomers Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropole. Cambridge:
    Harvard UP. 1959.

Henke, Holger.  The West Indian Americans.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2001.

Ho, Christine.  Salt-Water Trinnies:  Afro-Trinidadian Immigrant Networks and Non-Assimilation
    in Los Angeles.  New York: AMS Press, 1991.

Irish, J.A. George and Albert Murphy. Jamaicans in Major Cities of the United States.  Brooklyn,
    New York: Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, undated.

Irish, J.A. George and Albert Murphy. Persons of Caribbean Ancestry: A Basic Demographic Social
    and Economic Profile Based on 1990 Census Data.  Brooklyn, New York: Caribbean Research
    Center, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, undated.

Jackson, Kenneth T., and John B. Manbeck. The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn.  New York: Yale
    UP, 1998.

Kasinitz, Philip.  Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race.  Ithaca: Cornell
    UP, 1992.

Klevan, Miriam.  The West Indian Americans.  New York: Chelsea House, 1990.

Knight, Franklin W.  U.S. Cultural Influences on the English-Speaking Caribbean During the Early
    Twentieth Century.  1982.

Palmer, Ransford W.  Pilgrims from the Sun: West Indian Migration to America.  New York: Simon
    & Schuster Macmillan, 1995.

Palmer, Ransford W.  Caribbean Relations: Their Impact on Peoples and Culture.  Westport,
    Connecticut: Praeger, 1998.

Papademetriou, Demetrios G.  New Immigrants to Brooklyn and Queens: Policy Implications,
    Especially with Regard to Housing.  New York: The Center for Migration Studies, 1986.

Payne, Anthony.  The International Crisis of the Caribbean.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984.

Payne, Anthony J.  Politics in Jamaica.  London: Hurst & Co, 1988.

Reid, Ira De A.  The Negro Immigrant: His Background, Characteristics and Social Adjustment,
    1899-1937.  New York: AMS Press, 1939.

Salvo, Joseph J., et al.  The  Newest New Yorkers: An Analysis of  Immigration into New York City
    During the 1980s.  New York: New York City Department of City Planning, 1992.

Sanchez, Toby.  Crown Heights Neighborhood Profile.  New York: Brooklyn In Touch Information
    Center, Inc., 1978.

Stinner, William F., Klaus de Albuquerque, and Roy S. Bryce-Laporte, eds.  Return Migration and Remittances:
    Developing a Caribbean Perspective.  Washington, DC:  Smithsonian Institution, REIIS Occassional
    Papers No. 3, 1982.

Sunshine, Catherine A., and Keith Warner, eds.  Caribbean Connections: Moving North.
    Washington, D.C.: Network of Educators on the Americas, 1998.

Sutton, Constance R, and Elsa M. Chaney, eds.  Caribbean Life in New York City:  Sociocultural
    Dimensions.  New York: The Center for Migration Studies, 1987.

Szulc, Tad.  The United States and the Caribbean.  Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Taylor, Clarence.  The Black Churches of Brooklyn.  New York: Columbia UP, 1994.

Udeogalanya, Veronica Nnoduka.  Caribbean Immigrants Admitted into the United States, 1982-
    1990:  For the Tristate Areas:  New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.  New York:  Caribbean
    Research Center, 1991.

Udeogalanya, Veronica Nnoduka.  Demographic and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Caribbean
    Immigrants and Non-Immigrant Population in the United States.  New York:  Caribbean Research
    Center, 1989.

Udeogalanya, Veronica Nnoduka.  New York City Numbers of Caribbean Immigrants Who Acquired
    Permanent Resident Status in Fiscal Years 1983-1987.  New York:  Caribbean Research Center, 1988.

Vickerman, Milton.  Crosscurrents: West Indians and Race.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Waldinger, Roger David.  Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in
    Postindustrial New York.  Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1999.

Waters, Mary C.  Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities.  New
    York & Cambridge: Russell Sage Foundation & Harvard UP, 1999.

Watkins-Owens, Irma.  Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community,
    1900-1930. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.

Westmoreland, Guy T. West Indian Americans: A Research Guide.  Westport:  Greenwood Press, 2001.

Wilber, Charles K., and Kenneth P. Jameson.  Beyond Reaganomics: A Further Inquiry into the
    Poverty of Economics.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1990.

Winnick, Louis.  New People in Old Neighborhoods: The Role of New Immigrants in Rejuvenating
    New York's Communities.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990.
 

(Return to top of page)

Articles

Afflick, Martin.  "Caribbean Immigrant Consumer Behavior And Attitudes."  Establishing New
    Lives: Selected Readings on Caribbean Immigrants in New York City.  Ed. Velta J. Clarke and
    Emmanuel Riviere, eds.  Brooklyn, New York: Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers
    College, CUNY, 1989.  193-223.

Albuquerque, Klaus de.  "In Search of the Big Bamboo." Transition 77 (March 1999): 48-57.

Blackman, Courtney N.  "Factors in the Development of a Migration Policy for the Caribbean."
    Migration and Development in the Caribbean: The Unexplored Connection.  Ed.  Robert A. Pastor.
    Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.  262-272.

Bonnett, Aubrey W.  "The New Female West Indian Immigrant: Dilemmas of Coping in the Host
    Society."  In Search Of A Better Life:  Perspectives on Migration from the Caribbean.   Ed.
    Ransford W. Palmer.  New York: Praeger, 1990.  139-149.

Carnegie, Charles V.  "A Social Psychology of Caribbean Migrations: Strategic Flexibility in the
    West Indies." The Caribbean Exodus.  Ed. Barry B. Levine.  New York: Praeger, 1987.  32-43.

Carson, Alvar W.  "Caribbean Immigration to the US, 1965-1989."  Caribbean Affairs 7.1 (1994): 142-160.

Clifford, Paul.  "Reminiscing, Reluctance, Rhetoric, Radicalism, and Rastafarianism:  The Political
    Participation of English-speaking West Indians in Central Brooklyn."  Unpublished Senior Paper. Trumbull
   College, 1978.

Conway, Dennis, and Ualthan Bigby.  "Where Caribbean Peoples Live In New York City."  Caribbean
    Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.  Eds. Constance Sutton and Elsa M. Chaney.
   New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1987.  70-78.

Conway, Dennis and Susan Walcott.  "Gendered Caribbean and Latin American New Immigrant
    Employment Experiences in New York City."  Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its
    Diaspora 2.1 (Winter/Spring 1999): 53-112.

Dookeran, Winston.  "East Indians and the Economy of Trinidad and Tobago." Calcutta to Caroni.  Ed.
    John LaGuerre.  Trinidad: Longman Caribbean, 1974.

Duany, Jorge.  "Beyond the Safety Valve: Recent Trends in Caribbean Migration."  Social and
    Economic Studies 43.1 (March 1994): 95-122.

Foner, Nancy.  "West Indians In New York City And London: A Comparative Analysis."  Caribbean
    Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.  Ed. Constance Sutton and Elsa M. Chaney.
    New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1992.  108-120.

Forsythe, Dennis.  "Black Immigrants and the American Ethos: Theories and Observations."  Caribbean
    Immigration to the United States.  Ed. Roy Bryce-Laporte and Delores Mortimer.  Washington, D.C.:
    Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution. 1976.

Gans, Herbert.  "Symbolic Ethnicity:  The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures on America." Ethnic and
    Racial Studies 2, 1970: 1-20.

Glantz, Oscar.  "Native Sons of Immigrants: Some Beliefs and Values of American-Born and West
    Indian Blacks at Brooklyn College."  Ethnicity 5.2 (1978): 189-202.

Gonzalez, Nancie L.  "Garifuna Settlement in New York: A New Frontier."  Caribbean Life in New
    York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.  Ed. Constance R. Sutton and Elsa M. Chaney.  New
    York: Center for Migration Studies, 1992.  138-146.

Gordon, Monica.  "Gender in Selection of Immigrants and the Impact on Caribbean Women in the
    United States." Establishing New Lives. Selected Readings on Caribbean Immigrants in New
    York City.  Ed. Velta Clarke and Emmanuel Riviere.  Brooklyn, New York: Caribbean Research
    Center, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, 1989.  84-109.

Green, Charles and Basil Wilson.  "Socio-Political Relations Between African-Americans and
    African-Caribbeans In New York City."  Political Behavior and Social Interaction among
    Caribbean and African American Residents in New York.  Ed. J.A. George Irish and E.W.
    (Bill) Riviere.  Brooklyn, New York: Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers College, CUNY,
    1990.  125-138.

Hodge, Merle.  "Articulating a Caribbean Aesthetic: The Revolution of Self-Perception."  Caribe
    (Report: Caribbean Expressions Festival I) (1980): 24-31.

Holder, Calvin.  "Making Ends Meet: West Indian Economic Adjustment in New York City, 1900-1952."
    Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora 1.1 (Winter/Spring 1998): 31-84.

Hope, Trevor J.  "The Impact of Immigration on Caribbean Development."  Migration and
    Development in the Caribbean: The Unexplored Connection.  Ed. Robert A. Pastor.  Boulder:
    Westview Press, 1985.  237-261.

Maingot, Anthony P.  "Emigration and Development."  Determinants of Emigration from Mexico,
    Central America, and the Caribbean.  Ed. Sergio Diaz-Briquets and Sidney Weintraub.  Boulder:
    Westview Press, 1991.  100-119.

Manning, Frank E.  "Overseas Caribbean Carnivals: The Art and Politics of a Transnational
    Celebration." Plantation Society in the Americas 3.1 (1990): 47-62.

Marshall, Dawn.  "A History of West Indian Migrations: Overseas Opportunities and Safety-Valve
    Policies."  The Caribbean Exodus.  Ed.  Barry B. Levine.  New York: Praeger, 1987.  15-31.

Marshall, Paule.  "Black Immigrant Women in Brown Girl, Brownstones."  Caribbean Life in
    New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.  Ed. Constance Sutton and Elsa M. Chaney.  New
    York: Center for Migration Studies, 1987.  81-85.

Miller, D.W.  "A Ghetto Childhood Inspires the Research of a Yale Sociologist."  The Chronicle of
    Higher Education 45.28 (March 19, 1999): A15-16.

Miller, Harris N.  "U.S. Immigration Policy and Caribbean Economic Development."  Migration
    and Development in the Caribbean: The Unexplored Connection.  Ed. Robert A. Pastor.  Boulder:
    Westview Press, 1985.  348-370.

Mitchell, Christopher.  "From Policy Frontier to Policy Dilemmas: The United States and Caribbean
    Migration, 1960-1990."  European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 52 (1992): 75-89.

Model, Suzanne.  "Caribbean Immigrants: A Black Success Story?"  International Migration Review.
    25.2 (Summer 1991): 248-276.

Newton, Kenneth.  "Social Capital and Democracy."  American Behavioral Scientist 40.5 (March / April
    1997): 575-586.

Pastor, Robert.  "The Impact of U.S. Immigration Policy on Caribbean Emigration: Does it Matter?"  The
    Caribbean Exodus.  Ed. Barry B. Levine.  New York: Praeger, 1987.  243-259.

Pastor, Robert A.  Introduction.  "The Policy Challenge."  Migration and Development in the
    Caribbean: The Unexplored Connection.  Ed. Robert A. Pastor.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1985. 1-39.

Pastor, Robert A.  "Sinking in the Caribbean Basin."  Foreign Affairs (1982/83): 1038-1058.

Portes, Alejandro and Julia Sensenbrenner.  "Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social
    Determinants of Economic Action."  American Journal of Sociology 98.6 (May 1993): 1320-1350.

Pragg, Sam.  "Children Hardest Hit in Migration Wave."  Internet Newsgroup reg.carib (posted by
    InterPress Third World News Agency, January 2. 1999).

Putnam, Robert D.  "Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America."
    PS: Political Science & Politics 28.4 (December 1995): 664-683.

Ramsaran, Ramesh.  "The Offshore Caribbean." Modern Caribbean Politics. Ed. Anthony Payne and
    Paul K. Sutton.  Kingston, Jamaica:  Ian Randle Publishers, 1993.

Ramsaran, Ramesh. "The U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative." The World Today 38 (November 1982): 430-436.

Simmons, Alan B. and Jean Pierre Guengant.  "Caribbean Exodus and the World System."
    International Migration Systems: A Global Approach.  Ed. Mary M. Kritz, Lin Lean Lim, and
    Hania Zlotnik.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Sutton, Constance and Susan R. Makiesky-Barrow.  "Migration and West Indian Racial and Ethnic
    Consciousness." Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.  Ed. Constance
    Sutton, and Elsa M. Chaney.  New York: The Center for Migration Studies, 1992.  86-107.

Sutton, Constance. "Transnational Identities and Cultures:  Caribbean Immigrants in the United States."
    Immigration and Ethnicity: American Society- "Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl" ?. Ed. Michael D'Innocenzo
    and Josef P. Sirefman. Westport, Connecticut: Hofstra University, 1992.  231-241.

Thomas, Bert J. "Historical Functions of Caribbean-American Benevolent/Progressive Associations."
    Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (July 1988).

Toney, Joyce.  "The Changing Relationship Between Caribbean Men and Women in New York City."
    Establishing New Lives: Selected Readings on Caribbean Immigrants in New York City.  Ed. Velta
    J. Clarke and Emmanuel Riviere.  Brooklyn, New York: Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers
    College, CUNY, 1989.  65-83.

Toney, Joyce.  "Exporting Culture: Caribbean Americans in New York City." Caribbean Relations: Their
    Impact on Peoples and Culture.  Ed. Ransford W. Palmer.  Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998.

Toney, Joyce. "Similarities and Differences in the Response to Oppression among Blacks in the Diaspora."
      Immigration and Ethnicity: American Society- "Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl" ?. Ed. Michael D'Innocenzo
      and Josef P. Sirefman. Westport, Connecticut: Hofstra University, 1992.  221-229.

Toney, Joyce.  "Women, Urbanization, and Structural Adjustment in St. Vincent." Globalization and
    Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge. Ed. Charles Green.  Albany, New York:
    State University of New York Press, 1997. 227-243.

Traub, James.  "You Can Get It if You Really Want."  Harper's (June 1982).

van Capelleveen, Remco.  "Multiculturalism and the Color Line: African Caribbeans in New York City."
    European Contributions to American Studies 23 (1993): 172-198.
 

(Return to top of page)

Audiovisual

Celebration!  Dir. Karen Kramer.  Videocassette.  Filmmakers Library, N.Y.  1988.

Celebration!  Carnival in Brooklyn .  Dir. Karen Kramer.  16mm Film.  Filmmakers Library,
    N.Y.  1989.

Fires in the Mirror.  Dir. Anna Deavere Smith.  Prod. Cherie Fortis.  Videocassette.  PBS Video.
    Alexandria, Va.  1993.

Harry Belafonte Looking Back.  Dirs. Gil Noble and Harry Belafonte.  Videocassette.
    WABC-TV, New York.  1978

"Parade."  Fox News Live.  Rep. Christopher Jones.  Fox News Channel Cable Programming,
    New York.  12:00 noon, 4 Sept. 2000.

"Parade."  New York 1.  Cable Channel 1, New York.  8:00 a.m., 4 Sept. 2000.

"West Indian Day Carnival."  Today in New York.  Rep. John Noel.  WNBC-TV, New York.
    5 Sept. 2000.

"West Indian Day Carnival Parade."  Eyewitness News.  Rep. Nancy Loo.  WABC-TV, New York.
    5:00 p.m., 29 Aug. 2000.

(Last updated:  12/18/01)