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Buff, Rachel J. "Calling Home: Race, Migration and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and Native American Minneapolis, 1945-1992," American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, August 1995.
This study compares the development of urban Indian powwows in Minneapolis with that of Afro-Caribbean Carnivals in New York City. Focusing on the post-World War II period, the project looks at these festivals as expressions of identities that respond to histories of migration, colonial and neocolonial administration, and the hemispheric circulation of popular forms. This comparison between Caribbean immigrants and Native American migrants points to hemispheric parallels in the construction of local identities. The project explores the social contradiction between nationalist ideas of citizenship and an increasingly transnational economy, arguing that transmigration has transformed the very concept of home in the late twentieth century.
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