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Constructing Black Selves : Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGill, Lisa Diane.
- Series:
- Nation of Nations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of immigrants--United States--Intellectual life.
- Caribbean Americans--Intellectual life--United States.
- Caribbean Americans.
- American literature.
- Children of immigrants--Intellectual life--United States.
- Children of immigrants.
- Caribbean Americans--Race identity--United States.
- African Americans--Relations with Caribbean Americans--United States.
- African Americans.
- Ethnicity--Social conditions.
- Ethnicity.
- African diaspora--Social conditions.
- African diaspora.
- Caribbean Americans--Social aspects.
- Children of immigrants--Caribbean American authors--History and criticism.
- Performing arts.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Children of immigrants--United States--Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : NYU Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean-Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics? As black immigrants, to which America do they assimilate? Constructing Black Selves explores the cultural production of second-generation Caribbean immigrants in the United States after World War II as a prism for understanding the formation of Caribbean American identity. Lisa D. McGill pays pa.
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Performing the Caribbean: Harry Belafonte and the Black Male Body; 2."All o' We Is One": Paule Marshall, Black Radicalism, and the African Diaspora in Praisesong for the Widow; 3. Sister-Outsider: African God(desse)s, Black Feminist Politics, and Audre Lorde's Liberation; 4."How to Be a Negro without Really Trying": Piri Thomas and the Politics of Nuyorican Identity; 5."Diasporic Intimacy": Merengue Hip Hop, Proyecto Uno, and Representin' Afro-Latino Cultures; Postscript; Notes.
- Selected BibliographyIndex; About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780814771235
- 0814771238
- 9781479880393
- 1479880396
- OCLC:
- 913695050
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