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Raising Brooklyn – Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community

Autor Tamara R. Mose
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 ian 2011
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 libraries, and living as a fellow resident among their employers, and her intimate tour of the public spaces of gentrified Brooklyn deepens our understanding of how these women use their collective lives to combat the isolation felt during the workday as a domestic worker.Though at first glance these childcare providers appear isolated and exploited - and this is the case for many - Mose Brown shows that their daily interactions in the social spaces they create allow their collective lives and cultural identities to flourish. Raising Brooklyn demonstrates how these daily interactions form a continuous expression of cultural preservation as a weapon against difficult working conditions, examining how this process unfolds through the use of cell phones, food sharing, and informal economic systems. Ultimately, Raising Brooklyn places the organization of domestic workers with the framework of a social justice movement, creating a dialogue between workers who don’t believe their exploitative work conditions will change and an organization whose members believe change can come about through public displays of solidarity.
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ISBN-13: 9780814791431
ISBN-10: 0814791433
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

Cuprins

Contents; Acknowledgments v; Preface viii; Introduction: The Neighborhood 1; 1. West Indians Raising New York 32; 2. Public Places and Social Spaces: Surveillance and Creating Communities 53; 3. Lessons of Love: Public Play Spaces 104; 4. A Taste of Home: How Food Creates Community 118; 5. Mobility for The Non-Mobile: Cell Phones, Technology and Childcare 147; 6. Where’s My Money? How Susus Bridge the Financial Gap 174; 7. Organizing Resistance: The Case of Domestic Workers United 192; Conclusion 222; Appendix A: Public Place Methods 231; Appendix B: Demographic Information 252; Notes 254; Bibliography 281; Index; About the Author 311

Recenzii

“A sensitive and nuanced glimpse into the lives of the women who raise so many of Brooklyn’s - and America’s - children. Brown has given us a deeply compelling and timely ethnography.” Philip Kasinitz, co-author of Inheriting the City

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Offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of childcare providers, examining the important roles they play in the families whose children they help to raise