"We're just black": The racial and ethnic identities of second-generation West Indians in New York

Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of The New Second Generation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 288-312

  Butterfield, Sherri Ann P ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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