Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans - We, Too, Sing America

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.

List of contents

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?

About the author

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. 

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Yndia S Lorick-Wilmot, Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319872582
• ISBN: 978-3-31-987258-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 16 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 394 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 292 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; Sozialtheorie, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien, Ethnic Studies, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Social Inequality, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Social Sciences, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnography, auseinandersetzen, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social Structure, Social and cultural anthropology, Social sciences—Philosophy, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Sociology of Racism, Racism in the social sciences