Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conceptualizing Black Identity in the Hudson Valley
Myra B. Young Armstead
1. The Emergence of a New Black Religious Identity in New York City and Eastern New Jersey, 1624-1807
Graham Russell Hodges
2. "Living in a Material World": African Americans and Economic Identity in Colonial Albany
Aileen B. Agnew
3. Laboring for Freedom in Dutchess County
Michael E. Groth
4. A Geography of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum Ulster County and New York City: Isabella Van Wagenen and Her Family
Myra B. Young Armstead
5. The Kinship System in The Hills, An African American Community in Westchester, New York, in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Edythe Ann Quinn
6. The Rise and Fall of Skunk Hollow
Joan H. Geismar
7. Stepladder to Community
Irma Watkins-Owens
8. Black Neighborhood Formation in Poughkeepsie during the Great Migration, 1950–1970
Denise Love Johnson
9. Race and Class Politics in a Black Middle-Class Suburb
Bruce D. Haynes
10. Representations of Racial Identity in a Contemporary Pinkster Celebration
Linda Pershing
11. Spaces, Places, and Fields: The Politics of West African Trading in New York City's Informal Economy
Paul Stoller
12. Something in Between: Locating Identity among Second-Generation West Indians in New York City
Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield
Appendix: The Black Presence in the Hudson River Valley, 1790 to 2000: A Demographic Overview
Andrew A. Beveridge and Michael McMenemy
Contributors
Index