Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans

We, Too, Sing America

Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 292 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-87258-2 (ISBN)

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This volume addresses how black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of race, black economic mobility, and immigrant communities in the US. Based on rich ethnography, Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot draws attention to this persisting invisibility by exploring this generation's experiences in challenging structures of oppression as adult children of post-1965 Caribbean immigrants and as an important part of the African-American middle class. She recounts compelling stories from participants regarding their identity performances in public and private spaces-including what it means to be "black and making it in America"-as well as the race, gender, and class constraints they face as part of a larger transnational community.

Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot, PhD is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Northeastern University's College of Professional Studies, USA, and a social research consultant for nonprofits and philanthropies across the US, Canada, and the Caribbean.

1. Un-Othering the Black Experience: Storytelling and Sociology.- 2. What Does Race Have To Do With It?.- 3. Blackness as Experience.- 4. Habitus of Blackness and the Confluence of Middle Class-ness.- 5. From Lessons Learned to Real-life Performances of Cultural Capital and Habitus.- 6. Performing Identity in Public.- 7. Transnational Community Ties, Black Philanthropy, and Triple Identity Consciousness.- 8. We, Too, Sing America: Where do we go from here?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.8.2018
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 292 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	394 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Afro-Asian • Afro-descendants • Afro-Latino • assimililation • black middle class • Caribbean immigrants • internalized racism • middle class • Multilingual • multi-racial • race-based assumptions • Second Generation • Social mobility • upwardly mobile
ISBN-10	3-319-87258-3 / 3319872583
ISBN-13	978-3-319-87258-2 / 9783319872582
Zustand	Neuware