Book
American odyssey: Haitians in New York City
Cornell University Press • Ithaca, New York • Published In 1984 • Pages: 198
By: Laguerre, Michel S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book presents, from an anthropological perspective, an assessment of the development and socio-economic adaptation of the Haitian community to life in New York City (p. 14).The author first describes the Haitian migrations to the United States including motives for emigration, and settlement patterns within the U.S.,and then continues with detailed discussions of social adjustment to life in New York City, family relationships and organization, job hunting, economics, health beliefs and practices, and politics.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- Extended families
- Political parties
- Theory of disease
- Medical therapy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haitian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960s-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michel S. Laguerre
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-194) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83021078
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haitian Americans