Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans
We, Too, Sing America
Provides accounts of the issues facing an often overlooked group: second generation Caribbean immigrants (and the black middle class in America more generally)Is timely given the growth of the Caribbean black population in America in recent years and their relative lack of recognition and visibility in academic literatureIdentifies and discusses many of the similarities and differences between black immigrants and native blacks in the United States
This volume addresses how black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of race, black economic mobility, and immigrant communities in the US. Based on rich ethnography, Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot draws attention to this persisting invisibility by exploring this generation’s experiences in challenging structures of oppression as adult children of post-1965 Caribbean immigrants and as an important part of the African-American middle class. She recounts compelling stories from participants regarding their identity performances in public and private spaces—including what it means to be “black and making it in America”—as well as the race, gender, and class constraints they face as part of a larger transnational community.
| Autor: | Lorick-Wilmot, Yndia S. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319622071 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 11.09.2017 |
| Untertitel: | We, Too, Sing America |
| Schlagworte: | B Cultural Studies Ethnic Studies Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien Ethnography Kulturwissenschaften Race and Ethnicity Studies Racism in the social sciences Social & cultural anthropology Social Inequality Social Sciences Social Structure Social Structure, Social Inequality Social Theory Social and cultural anthropology Social sciences—Philosophy Sociology of Racism Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie Sozialtheorie auseinandersetzen |
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