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Canada and the United States

Irma Watkins-Owens. Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900–1930. (Blacks in the Diaspora.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1996. Pp. x, 238. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.50.

Despite the large number of African-American community studies dealing with the 1890–1930 period, many important topics remain relatively untouched by scholars. One of these, the question of ethnic divisions within the black community, is addressed by Irma Watkins-Owens in her well-written study of Caribbean immigrants in Harlem. The subject of this book is not as broad as its title. The author has little to say about Spanish or French-speaking black migrants from the West Indies but instead focuses almost exclusively on newcomers from Jamaica, Trinidad, and other British colonies, where most of the Caribbean newcomers to New York originated. The impact of these immigrants was substantial. Many readers will be surprised to learn that 40,000 African Caribbeans settled in Harlem during the first three decades of the century. By 1930, they made up twenty-five percent of the nation's largest black community. . . .

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