The (Re-)Making of a Black American
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The (Re-)Making of a Black American

Tracing the Racial and Ethnic Socialization of Caribbean American Youth

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The (Re-)Making of a Black American

Tracing the Racial and Ethnic Socialization of Caribbean American Youth

About this book

Historically, Blacks in the United States have been treated as a homogenous group with little regard for distinctions in ethnicity and immigrant status. However, the growing number of Black immigrants to the United States, and their location at the intersection of immigrant opportunity and racial barriers, has prompted increased interest in the group's integration experiences. Grounded in the notion that racism is an inescapable marker of the Black experience in the United States, The (Re-)Making of a Black American explores the ways children of Black immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean come to understand their racial and ethnic identities, given the socialization messages they receive from their parents and their experiences with institutionalized racism and racial hierarchies in a U.S. middle school. This book highlights the contradictions between parental and school socialization messages and the struggle that ensues as Caribbean American youth are forcibly (re-)made into a specific brand of Black Americans.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter One Historical Contexts, Transnationalism, and Race in the United States
  5. Chapter Two Life Narratives: Identities in Transition
  6. Chapter Three E(race)ing Socialization: Transnational Scripts, Ethnic Socialization, and Getting Ahead in America
  7. Chapter Four Caribbean Immigrants, Racism, and Racial Socialization
  8. Chapter Five Racial Socialization at Morristown Middle School: What Caribbean American Students Learn About Race and Racism by Way of the “Not So Hidden” Curriculum
  9. Chapter Six Converging Identities and Realities:Finding One’s Place in the Home, School, and World
  10. Chapter Seven The (Re-)Making of a Black American: Findings, Implications, and Recommendations
  11. References
  12. Index