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
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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