Reviewed by Suzanne Model | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900–1950. By Violet Showers Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. x + 181 pp. Photos, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.99 (cloth).

At the outset of this short, insightful work, Violet Showers Johnson laments that most studies of West Indian immigrants limit their purview to New York. Another common characteristic of this literature is its preoccupation with West Indian–African American differences. Proclaiming that West Indians in other cities deserve a voice and that comparative studies of the two groups of blacks are based on "biased impressionistic accounts" (p. 4), Johnson offers a study of Boston's West Indians that resolutely avoids intrablack comparisons.

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