Background
Kasinitz, Philip was born on September 18, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Julius and Margaret (Van Gorp) Kasinitz.
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The Big Apple has been a crossroads for Caribbean music and culture since the early years of this century. This collection of critical essays surveys a rich mosaic of popular Caribbean styles and explores the fascinating relationship between music and cultural identity in America's largest, most diverse urban center.
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Since 1965, West Indians have been emigrating to the United States in record numbers, and to New York City in particular. Caribbean New York shows how the new immigration is reshaping American race relations and sheds much-needed light on factors that underlie some of the city's explosive racial confrontations. Philip Kasinitz examines how two forces―racial solidarity and ethnic distinctiveness―have helped to shape the identity of New York's West Indian community. He compares "new" (post-1965) immigrants with West Indians who arrived earlier in the century, and looks in detail at the economic, political, and cultural rules that Afro-Caribbean immigrants have played in the city during each period.
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Kasinitz, Philip was born on September 18, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Julius and Margaret (Van Gorp) Kasinitz.
Kasinitz graduated Boston University in 1979 and earned his doctorate from New York University in 1987, where he studied primarily with Richard Sennett and Dennis Wrong.
He is currently a Presidential Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center where he has chaired the doctoral program in Sociology since 2001. He specializes in immigration, ethnicity, race relations, urban social life and the nature of contemporary cities. Much of his work focuses on New New York
Since 2005 has been the book review editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, E. R. A. Seligman and A. J. Johnson (eds) (Macmillan, 1930-5, 15 vols) journal, Sociological Forum.
Kasinitz is frequently quoted in media venues and his work has appeared in Cable News Network On Lincolnshire, New York Newsday. Dissent; The Nation; The Wall Street Journal.
Lingua Franca, and Telos as well as in numerous academic journals. Prior to coming to the City University of New York Graduate Center, Kasinitz taught at Williams College.
He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, The University of Amsterdam and the Technical University of Berlin.
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Member History Advisory Committee, Ellis Island Statue of Liberty Foundation, since 2004, Sage Foundations Committee to Study Impact of 9-11 on New York City. Member of Eastern Sociological Society (president 2005-2006), Families of Children from China, American Sociological Association (chair section on international migration 1998-1999).
Married Lisa Jane Gibbs, August 16, 1987. Children: Basya, Mira.