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By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.

Chinese Americans --- Taiwanese Americans --- Social conditions --- Queens (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Chinese Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions --- Taiwanese Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions --- Queens (New York, N.Y.) - Social conditions --- New York (N.Y.) - Social conditions

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City planning --- New York (N.Y.) --- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --- Queens (New York, N.Y.) --- Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) --- Maps --- Maps.

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The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York. In The New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city. Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge's ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York's middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class.

Middle class African Americans --- African diaspora --- Social conditions. --- Queens (New York, N.Y.) --- Long Island (N.Y.) --- Race relations. --- 1960s. --- 21st century. --- african american middle class. --- african diaspora. --- american south. --- black american middle class. --- black identities. --- black immigrants. --- cultural interactions. --- cultural landscape. --- culture. --- diverse groups. --- global south. --- long island. --- multinational black middle class. --- new york. --- political. --- queens. --- race issues. --- race politics. --- suburban neighborhoods. --- suburbia.