Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States
edited by Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly contributions by Clifford Murphy, Terry Rey, Susan Seifert, Alex Stepick, Mark Stern, Domenic Vitiello, Deborah Wong, Gilberto Cârdenas, Yen Le Espiritu, Amaney Jamal, Sunaina Maira, Douglas Massey and Cecilia Menjivar introduction by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Rutgers University Press, 2010 Cloth: 978-0-8135-4757-2 | Paper: 978-0-8135-4758-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-5041-1 Library of Congress Classification NX180.S6A73 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 700.869120973
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PAUL DiMAGGIO is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, research director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of Social Organization at Princeton University. He is the editor of Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint. PATRICIA FERN-NDEZ-KELLY holds a joint position with the sociology department and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Her book, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier, was featured by Contemporary Sociology as one of the twenty-five favorite books of the late twentieth century.
REVIEWS
"Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States provides a great deal of information about the way recent arrivals use art to adapt to the United States, to recognize themselves and share outlooks with others. The book exemplifies a compelling and innovative approach that has considerable potential to improve the study of immigration and of cultural production. Accessible and well
written."
— Contemporary Sociology
"Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States provides a great deal of information about the way recent arrivals use art to adapt to the United States, to recognize themselves and share outlooks with others. The book exemplifies a compelling and innovative approach that has considerable potential to improve the study of immigration and of cultural production. Accessible and well
written."
— Contemporary Sociology
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The diversity and mobility of immigrant arts / Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Migrants and the transformation of Philadelphia's cultural sector / Mark J. Stern, Susan C. Seifert, and Domenic Vitiello
A howl to the heavens: art in the life of first- and second-generation Cuban Americans / Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Inside and outside the box: the politics of Arab American identity and artistic representations / Amaney Jamal
Desis in and out of the house: South Asian youth culture in the United States before and after 9/11 / Sunaina Maira
The intimate circle: finding common ground in mariachi and norteña music / Clifford R. Murphy
GenerAsians learn Chinese: the Asian American youth generation and new class formations / Deborah Wong
Unfinished journey: Mexican migration through the visual arts / Gilberto Cárdenas
Immigrant art as liminal expression: the case of Central Americans / Cecilia Menjívar
Negotiating memories of war: arts in Vietnamese American communities / Yen Le Espiritu
Miracles on the border: the votive art of Mexican migrants to the United States / Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey
Visual culture and visual piety in Little Haiti: the sea, the tree, and the refugee / Terry Rey and Alex Stepick
