International Express : : New Yorkers on the 7 Train /

International Express : : New Yorkers on the 7 Train / / William Kornblum, Stéphane Tonnelat.

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Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Tonnelat, Stéphane,
Kornblum, William,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 13 graphs, maps, and photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Becoming New Yorkers on the 7 Train
  • 2. Coping with Diversity Aboard the "International Express"
  • 3. Walking to the Stations, Code Switching, and the I-We-You Shift
  • 4. The 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue Station
  • 5. Trust in the Subway: Exploring the Situational Community in Transit
  • 6. Gender Relations on the Subway
  • 7. Teenagers on the 7 Train
  • 8. Subway City: The 7 Train as an Engine of Urbanism
  • 9. A World of Subway Citizens
  • Appendix: Mixed Methods in Subway Research
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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