Constructing Black Selves: Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation

by Lisa D. McGill

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814756913
• ISBN13: 9780814756911
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"