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

Provides accounts of the issues facing an often overlooked group: second generation Caribbean immigrants (and the black middle class in America more generally)

Is timely given the growth of the Caribbean black population in America in recent years and their relative lack of recognition and visibility in academic literature

Identifies and discusses many of the similarities and differences between black immigrants and native blacks in the United States

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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?