“ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York,” an originally missiological study of people of different ethnicity in New York City, is probably one of the best ethnographic project in New York City. This book studied the top forty foreign-born groups according to the U.S. census data, split them into several subgroups (e.g., “Chinese” is divided into Fuzhounese, HongKognese, Mainland Cantonese, Mainland Han, Taiwanese, and Wenzhounese), and summarized their demographic, linguistic, religious, and ethnographic features on two pages.

The following ethnic groups are documented in this book:

  1. Afghans
  2. Afro-Guyanese
  3. Afro-Trinidadians
  4. Albanians
  5. Argentines
  6. Bangladeshis
  7. Barbadians
  8. Belarusians
  9. Bobover Jews
  10. Bosniaks
  11. Brazilians
  12. British
  13. Bukharan Jews
  14. Canadians
  15. Colombians
  16. Croats
  17. Cubans
  18. Dominicans
  19. Ecuadorians
  20. Egyptians
  21. Ethiopians
  22. Filipinos
  23. French
  24. Fuzhounese
  25. Garifuna
  26. Germans
  27. Ghanians
  28. Gorsky-Kavkazi Jews
  29. Greeks
  30. Guatemalans
  31. Gujaratis
  32. Gurmese
  33. Haitians
  34. HongKognese
  35. Indo-Caribbeans
  36. Indonesians
  37. Iranians
  38. Irish
  39. Israelis
  40. Italians
  41. Jamaicans
  42. Japanese
  43. Jordanians
  44. Keralites
  45. Korean
  46. Korean-Chinese
  47. Liberians
  48. Lubavitch Jews
  49. Macedonians
  50. Mainland Cantonese
  51. Mainland Han
  52. Malaysians
  53. Mexicans
  54. Nepalis
  55. Nigerians
  56. Pakistanis
  57. Palestinians
  58. Panamanians
  59. Persian Jews
  60. Peruvians
  61. Poles
  62. Portuguese
  63. Puerto Ricans
  64. Punjabis
  65. Quichua
  66. Romanians
  67. Russians
  68. Salvadorans
  69. Satmar Jews
  70. Senegalese
  71. Serbs
  72. Syrian Jews
  73. Syrio-Lebanese Christians
  74. Syrio-Lebanese Muslims
  75. Taiwanese
  76. Thai
  77. Tibetans
  78. Turks
  79. Ukranians
  80. Vietnamese
  81. Wenzhounese
  82. Yemenis

Clayman, Chris & Lee, Meredith (2010). ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York. New York, NY: Metro New York Baptist Association.

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