TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.18574/nyu/9781479880393
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Constructing Black Selves :Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation /
AU  - McGill, Lisa Diane, 
JF  - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VL  - 31
CN  - E184.C27 M33 2005
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1480403
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African diaspora.
KW  - American literature
KW  - Caribbean Americans
KW  - Caribbean Americans
KW  - Caribbean Americans
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
SN  - 9781479880393
TI  - Constructing Black Selves :Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation /
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