Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. vii, 292 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Rutgers series on the public life of the arts. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction: The diversity and mobility of immigrant arts, by Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly; Migrants and the transformation of Philadelphia's cultural sector, by 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, by Patricia Ferna´ndez-Kelly; Inside and outside the box: the politics of Arab American identity and artistic representations, by Amaney Jamal; Desis in and out of the house: South Asian youth culture in the United States before and after 9/11, by Sunaina Maira; The intimate circle: finding common ground in mariachi and norten~a music, by Clifford R. Murphy; GenerAsians learn Chinese: the Asian American youth generation and new class formations, by Deborah Wong; Unfinished journey: Mexican migration through the visual arts, by Gilberto Cardenas; Immigrant art as liminal expression: the case of Central Americans, by Cecilia Menjivar; Negotiating memories of war: arts in Vietnamese American communities, by Yen Le Espiritu; Miracles on the border: the votive art of Mexican migrants to the United States, by Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey; Visual culture and visual piety in Little Haiti: the sea, the tree, and the refugee, by Terry Rey and Alex Stepick.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.