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Constructing Black Selves: Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation(Nation of Nations)


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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 particular attention to music, literature, and film, centering her study around the figures of singer-actor Harry Belafonte, writers Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Piri Thomas, and meringue-hip-hop group Proyecto Uno.Illuminating the ways in which Caribbean identity has been transformed by mass migration to urban landscapes, as well as the dynamic and sometimes conflicted relationship between Caribbean American and African American cultural politics, Constructing Black Selves is an important contribution to studies of twentieth century U.S. immigration, African American and Afro-Caribbean history and literature, and theories of ethnicity and race.

Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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 BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

About the Author :
Lisa D. McGill received her doctorate in American Studies at Yale University. She is the principal of LM Strategies Consulting, a diversity and equity consultancy in Illinois.

Review :
This book is a welcome addition to the new scholarship on Caribbean migration and in particular to the burgeoning interest in second-generation Caribbeans in America. -New West Indian GuideMoving against the traditional grain of migration scholarship in the United States, McGill forges a compelling cross-sectional dialogue among the languages, discourses, and cultural experiences of native-born and immigrant blacks in the twentieth century. Multicultural Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780814756911
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 318
  • Series Title: Nation of Nations
  • Weight: 675 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0814756913
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 318
  • Sub Title: Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
  • Width: 152 mm


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