Caribbean immigrant neighborhoods are served by Arab immigrant shopkeepers

Evidence

Mike’s Food Center is always busy, and almost everyone in the store is black—Jamaican hipsters, Haitian city workers, Barbadian mothers, African-American old-timers—except for the four Arab men—Akram, Kareem, Abdel Salam (Akram’s father) and his brother Khalil (Akram’s uncle)—working the register or stocking the shelves. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 463

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• SHARE: The observation that an Arab family runs the main grocery in a mostly Caribbean neighborhood is a sharp detail worth sharing with anyone studying immigrant labor geographies in NYC.