{"product_id":"a-home-away-from-home-mutual-aid-political-activism-and-caribbean-american-identity-hardback-9781512824544","title":"A Home Away from Home; Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (Hardback) 9781512824544","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Home Away from Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTyesha Maddox (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512824544\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 4 b\/w photos, 5 charts, 1 table\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.404 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eA Home Away from Home\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Tyesha Maddox reconfigures our understanding of Black New York by centering the multiple roles that Caribbean immigrants' institutional life played in recreating a political community in the city and abroad. Instead of Marcus Garvey we learn about Black Caribbean women like Elizabeth Hendrickson from Saint Croix, who was a leader in multiple Virgin Islands organizations and in the Harlem Tenants League. The political and organizational history that established the link between these island-specific organizations and community politics makes this book a must read.\" (Shannon King, author of Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Home Away from Home \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the significance of Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations to the immigrant experience, particularly their implications for the formation of a Pan-Caribbean American identity and Black diasporic politics.\u003cbr\u003e At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City exploded with the establishment of mutual aid societies and benevolent associations. Caribbean immigrants, especially women, eager to find their place in a bustling new world, created these organizations, including the West Indian Benevolent Association of New York City, founded in 1884. They served as forums for discussions on Caribbean American affairs, hosted cultural activities, and provided newly arrived immigrants with various forms of support, including job and housing assistance, rotating lines of credit, help in the naturalization process, and its most popular function—sickness and burial assistance. In examining the number of these organizations, their membership, and the functions they served, Tyesha Maddox argues that mutual aid societies not only fostered a collective West Indian ethnic identity among immigrants from specific islands, but also strengthened kinship networks with those back home in the Caribbean. Especially important to these processes were Caribbean women such as Elizabeth Hendrickson, co-founder of the American West Indian Ladies' Aid Society in 1915 and the Harlem Tenants' League in 1928.\u003cbr\u003e Immigrant involvement in mutual aid societies also strengthened the belief that their own fate was closely intertwined with the social, economic, and political welfare of the Black international community. \u003ci\u003eA Home Away from Home\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in many ways became proto-Pan-Africanist organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Friendly Societies in the Caribbean and Their African Traditions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Whence They Came: Immigration and Mobility in the Caribbean \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. More Than Auxiliary: The Functions of Mutual Aid Societies and Benevolent Associations\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Gendering the Migrant Experience: Caribbean Women's Roles in Social Organizations and Transnational Community Development\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Community Building and Political Mobilization: Forging a Caribbean and Black Identity\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610735800600,"sku":"9781512824544","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-home-away-from-home-mutual-aid-political-activism-and-caribbean-american-identity-hardback-9781512824544","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}