Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation:Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit. By Reuel R. Rogers.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 318p. $70.00 cloth,$24.99 paper.

How is the process of political incorporation of immigrants andminorities in the United States changing amid the arrival in recentdecades of unprecedented numbers of nonwhite new immigrants fromAsia, Latin America, and the Caribbean? In this probing case studyof Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City, Reuel R. Rogers drawson extensive field interviews with elites and immigrants, study ofcensus data and voting statistics, and analysis of historicalepisodes, and he argues that contemporary immigrant politicalincorporation resembles neither a pluralist model based on earlierEuropean-origin ethnic experience nor a minority model based onearlier African American migrant experience. Rather, race continuesto shape the process as Afro-Caribbean newcomers confront issues ofdiscrimination and exclusion in America. Because Afro-Caribbeans arerooted in a cognitive frame shaped by their status as immigrants andby their ethnic ties and home country attachments, they navigatepolitics differently from African Americans.