Raising Brooklyn: nannies, childcare, and Caribbeans creating community
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Main Author: Brown, Tamara Mose (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York New York University Press ©2011
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index
Introduction : the neighborhood -- West Indians raising New York -- Public places and social spaces : surveillance and the creation of communities -- Indoor public play spaces -- A taste of home : how food creates community -- Mobility for the nonmobile : cell phones, technology, and childcare -- Where's my money? : how susus bridge the financial gap -- Organizing resistance : the case of domestic workers united
Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been a crucial component of New York's economy, providing childcare for white middle- and upper-middleclass families. Raising Brooklyn offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of these childcare providers, examining the important roles they play in the families whose children they help to raise. Tamara Mose Brown spent three years immersed in these Brooklyn communities: in public parks, public librar
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 212 pages)
ISBN:9780814709351
0814709354
9780814725085
0814725082

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