Raising Brooklyn : Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community / Tamara R. Mose.
2011
HQ778.67.N7 B76 2011
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Title
Raising Brooklyn : Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community / Tamara R. Mose.
Author
Mose, Tamara R., author.
ISBN
9780814709351
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814709351.001.0001 doi
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HQ778.67.N7 B76 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.3/4089960729
Summary
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 within 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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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Neighborhood
1. West Indians Raising New York
2. Public Parks and Social Spaces
3. Indoor Public Play Spaces
4. A Taste of Home
5. Mobility for the Nonmobile
6. Where's My Money?
7. Organizing Resistance
Conclusion
Appendix A. Methods
Appendix B. Demographic Information
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Neighborhood
1. West Indians Raising New York
2. Public Parks and Social Spaces
3. Indoor Public Play Spaces
4. A Taste of Home
5. Mobility for the Nonmobile
6. Where's My Money?
7. Organizing Resistance
Conclusion
Appendix A. Methods
Appendix B. Demographic Information
Notes
References
Index
About the Author