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Author McGill, Lisa Diane

Title Constructing Black Selves : Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
Published New York : NYU Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (532 pages)
Series Nation of Nations
Nation of Nations
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
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
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Subject Caribbean Americans -- Intellectual life
Children of immigrants -- United States -- Intellectual life
Caribbean Americans -- Race identity
African Americans -- Relations with Caribbean Americans.
Ethnicity -- United States
African diaspora.
Caribbean Americans -- Social conditions
Children of immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States
American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
African Americans -- Relations with Caribbean Americans
African diaspora
American literature -- Caribbean American authors
Caribbean Americans -- Social conditions
Children of immigrants -- Intellectual life
Children of immigrants -- Social conditions
Ethnicity
Performing arts -- Social aspects
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781479880393
1479880396