Constructing Black Selves : Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation / Lisa Diane McGill.
2005
E184.C27 M33 2005
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Title
Constructing Black Selves : Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation / Lisa Diane McGill.
Author
McGill, Lisa Diane, author.
ISBN
9781479880393
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9781479880393 doi
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E184.C27 M33 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
700.89960729 700/.89/960729
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 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.
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Nation of Nations ; 31
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Performing the Caribbean: Harry Belafonte and the Black Male Body
Chapter 2 "All o' We Is One" Paule Marshall, Black Radicalism, and the African Diaspora in Praisesong for the Widow
Chapter 3 Sister- Outsider African God(desse)s, Black Feminist Politics, and Audre Lordre's Liberation
Chapter 4 "How to Be a Negro without Really Trying" Piri Thomas and the Politics of Nuyorican Identity
Chapter 5 "Diasporic Intimacy" Merengue Hip Hop, Proyecto Uno, and Representin' Afro-Latino Cultures
Postscript
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index
About the author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Performing the Caribbean: Harry Belafonte and the Black Male Body
Chapter 2 "All o' We Is One" Paule Marshall, Black Radicalism, and the African Diaspora in Praisesong for the Widow
Chapter 3 Sister- Outsider African God(desse)s, Black Feminist Politics, and Audre Lordre's Liberation
Chapter 4 "How to Be a Negro without Really Trying" Piri Thomas and the Politics of Nuyorican Identity
Chapter 5 "Diasporic Intimacy" Merengue Hip Hop, Proyecto Uno, and Representin' Afro-Latino Cultures
Postscript
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index
About the author