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Zusatztext Too many studies on Americans' attitudes about immigration focus solely on the responses of whites while ignoring the reactions of nonwhites. Carter's lens-shifting book moves African Americans from the margins to the center of longstanding immigration debates in the U.S. Reminding us that African Americans often have been reduced to the status of virtual strangers and second-class citizens in their own land, Carter explores how the group has reacted to the arrival of new immigrants over time and across the country. The book documents a great deal of incertitude and ambivalence in African Americans' attitudes toward immigration. Yet Carter perceptively points to one certainty in their views: African Americans believe that immigration, like so many other issues, is entangled with this country's race problem. It is this most familiar and uncomfortable truth about American democracy that Carter unflinchingly confronts in this powerful book. Informationen zum Autor Niambi Michele Carter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University. Her work focuses on racial and ethnic politics in the United States, specifically public opinion and political behavior of African Americans. Klappentext What has an expanded immigration regime meant for how blacks express national attachment? In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic. Blacks use immigration as a way to express their concerns about how race operates to structure and constrain their place in the American political landscape. Carter draws onoriginal interview material and empirical data on African American political opinion to offer the first theory of black public opinion toward immigration. Zusammenfassung At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States's borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded immigration regime meant for how blacks express national attachment? In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic. As Carter contends, blacks use the issue of immigration as a way to understand the nature and meaning of their American citizenship-specifically the way that white supremacy structures and constrains not just their place in the American political landscape, but their political opinions as well. White supremacy gaslights black people, and others, into critiquing themselves and each other instead of white supremacy itself. But what may appear to be a conflict between blacks and other minorities is about self-preservation. Carter draws on original interview material and empirical data on African American political opinion to offer the first theory of black public opinion toward immigration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Lies, Fairytales and Fallacies: Immigration and the Complexity of Black Public Opinion Chapter 2: Citizens First? African Americans as Conflicted Nativists Chapter 3: Emigrants, Immigrants and Refugees: Immigration as a Strategy for Black Liberation (1815-1862) Chapter 4: (Re)Remembering Race: Collective Memory and Racial Hierarchy in the Present Chapter 5: Conflicted Nativism an Empirical View Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index ...
