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Author Clerge, Orly, author

Title The new noir : race, identity, and diaspora in black suburbia / by Orly Clergé
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Contents Village market : encounters in black diasporic suburbs -- Children of the Yam : enslaved African to middle class black in the U.S., Haiti and Jamaica -- Blood pudding : forbidden neighbors on Jim Crow Long Island -- Callaloo : cultural economies of our backyards -- Fish soup : class journey across time and space -- Vanilla black : the spectrum of racial consciousness -- Green juice fast : skinfolk distinction making -- Conclusion : mustard seeds : grow where you are planted
Summary "The expansion of the black middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of immigrants among them since the 1960s has transformed the black cṳ̤ltural geography of New York. In The New Noir, urban sociologist Orly Clerge uncovers the complex social worlds of an extraordinary generation of black middle class adults from different corners of the African Diaspora. Clerge demonstrates that the black middle class' ongoing ties with the American and Global South has influenced the local businesses, organizations, and kitchen tables of their suburbs. With particular attention to the largest black ethnic groups in the U.S.--Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians--Clerge takes us on a journey into the hidden places on Queens and Long Island and reveals the ways in which region and nationality shape how the black middle class negotiates diasporic encounters, the politics of blackness, and class mobility. In their social interactions with one another and in everyday life, they stir up local social hierarchies and cultivate a spectrum of black identities, which help them cultivate belonging in a changing 21st global city. As the first ethnographic work on the multiethnic black middle class, The New Noir is a groundbreaking exploration of race, place, and immigrant experience today"--Provided by publisher
Analysis 1960s
21st century
african american middle class
african diaspora
american south
black american middle class
black identities
black immigrants
cultural interactions
cultural landscape
culture
diverse groups
global south
long island
multinational black middle class
new york
political
queens
race issues
race politics
suburban neighborhoods
suburbia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2020)
Subject Middle class African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
Middle class African Americans -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Social conditions
African diaspora -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- Long Island
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Immigrants
Race relations
SUBJECT Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Race relations
Subject New York (State) -- Long Island
New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Queens
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019018669
ISBN 9780520969131
0520969138