Constructing Black Selves

Author : Lisa Diane McGill
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814756911

Get Book

Constructing Black Selves by Lisa Diane McGill Pdf

In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics? As black immigrants, to which America do they assimilate? Constructing Black Selves explores the cultural production of second-generation Caribbean immigrants in the United States after World War II as a prism for understanding the formation of Caribbean American identity. Lisa D. McGill pays particular attention to music, literature, and film, centering her study around the figures of singer-actor Harry Belafonte, writers Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Piri Thomas, and meringue-hip-hop group Proyecto Uno. Illuminating the ways in which Caribbean identity has been transformed by mass migration to urban landscapes, as well as the dynamic and sometimes conflicted relationship between Caribbean American and African American cultural politics, Constructing Black Selves is an important contribution to studies of twentieth century U.S. immigration, African American and Afro-Caribbean history and literature, and theories of ethnicity and race.

Author : Lisa Diane McGill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1479880396

Get Book

Constructing Black Selves by Lisa Diane McGill Pdf

In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean-Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics? As black immigrants, to which America do they assimilate? Constructing Black Selves explores the cultural production of second-generation Caribbean immigrants in the United States after World War II as a prism for understanding the formation of Caribbean American identity. Lisa D. McGill pays pa.

Author : Ricky L. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438456744

Get Book

Black Haze, Second Edition by Ricky L. Jones Pdf

Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing. Are black men naturally violent? Do they define manhood in the same way as their counterparts across lines of race? Are black Greek-letter fraternities among the most dangerous student organizations on American college and university campuses? Can their often-dangerous initiation processes be stopped or even modified and, if not, what should be done about them? In this second edition of Black Haze, Ricky L. Jones takes on these questions and more. The first edition was an enlightening and sometimes disturbing examination of American men’s quest for acceptance, comfort, reaffirmation, and manhood in a world where their footing is often unstable. In this new edition Jones not only provides masterful philosophical and ethical analyses but he also forces the engagement of a terrifying real world process that damages and kills students with all too frequent regularity. With a revealing new preface and stunning afterword, Jones immerses the reader in an intriguing and dark world marked by hypermasculinity, unapologetic brutality, and sometimes death. He offers a compelling book that ranges well beyond the subject of hazing—one that yields perplexing questions and demands difficult choices as we move forward in addressing issues surrounding fraternities, violent hazing, black men, and American society. Ricky L. Jones is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville and the author of What’s Wrong with Obamamania? Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Leah Perry
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479828777

Get Book

The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration by Leah Perry Pdf

How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, such as Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even while “multicultural” immigrants were embraced, they were at the same time disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability. Examining the relationship between law and culture, this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of both neoliberalism and immigration.

Author : Richard Walter Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:35112200514166

Get Book

The Black Self-help Tradition in Detroit by Richard Walter Thomas Pdf

Author : Orathai Meon Northern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : UCR:31210021189756

Get Book

Making Hair Black, Making Black Hair by Orathai Meon Northern Pdf

Author : Ward, Lock and co, ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600029134

Get Book

The industrial self-instructor and technical journal by Ward, Lock and co, ltd Pdf

Author : Aria S. Halliday
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889616127

Get Book

The Black Girlhood Studies Collection by Aria S. Halliday Pdf

One of the first volumes dedicated to exploring and developing theories of Black girls and girlhoods, The Black Girlhood Studies Collection foregrounds the experiences of Black girls in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and the African continent. This timely contributed volume brings together emerging and established scholars to discuss what Black girlhood means historically and in the 21st century, and how concepts of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality inform or affect identities of Black girls. From self-care and fan activism to political role models and new media, this interdisciplinary collection engages with Black feminist and womanist theory, hip-hop pedagogy, resistance theory, and ethnography. Featuring chapter overviews, glossaries, and discussion questions, this vital resource will evoke meaningful conversation and provide the theoretical, practical, and pedagogical tools necessary for the advancement of the field and the imagining of new worlds for Black girls.

Author : Carl N. Reed,Diane V. Lloyd,John P. Worsham,Judith A. Siegel,Lenwood G. Davis,Linda Cooper,Marta B. Stavrou,Perry O. Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Africa
ISBN : COLUMBIA:AR00342939

Get Book

A History of Black Self-help Organizations and Institutions in the United States, 1776-1976 by Carl N. Reed,Diane V. Lloyd,John P. Worsham,Judith A. Siegel,Lenwood G. Davis,Linda Cooper,Marta B. Stavrou,Perry O. Hanson Pdf

Author : Martin Summers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807864173

Get Book

Manliness and Its Discontents by Martin Summers Pdf

In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current trajectory of masculinity studies by treating black men as historical agents in their own identity formation, rather than as screens on which white men projected their own racial and gender anxieties and desires. Manliness and Its Discontents focuses on four distinct yet overlapping social milieus: the fraternal order of Prince Hall Freemasonry; the black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association, or the Garvey movement; the modernist circles of the Harlem Renaissance; and the campuses of historically black Howard and Fisk Universities. Between 1900 and 1930, Summers argues, dominant notions of what it meant to be a man within the black middle class changed from a Victorian ideal of manliness--characterized by the importance of producer values, respectability, and patriarchy--to a modern ethos of masculinity, which was shaped more by consumption, physicality, and sexuality. Summers evaluates the relationships between black men and black women as well as relationships among black men themselves, broadening our understanding of the way that gender works along with class, sexuality, and age to shape identities and produce relationships of power.

Author : Patrick L. Mason,Rhonda M. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040070743

Get Book

Race, Markets, and Social Outcomes by Patrick L. Mason,Rhonda M. Williams Pdf

Challenges the market power hypothesis, which asserts that racial discrimination and market competition are inversely correlated, with essays on employment, wage inequality, health, crime, and housing and credit markets. Specific topics include self-employed and employee African Americans in the New York city construction industry, measuring wage discrimination, and race as an issue in housing and credit markets. For those researching the interactions among race, institutions, and market and social outcomes, and for students in economics, sociology, African-American studies, and urban studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : IND:30000125137897

Get Book

New West Indian Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Mason Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047080539

Get Book

Race, Self-employment, and Upward Mobility by Timothy Mason Bates Pdf

"This very interesting and informative book examines the role of self-employment in the upward mobility of African Americans and Asian immigrants in American society." -- Choice

Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher : One World
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679645986

Get Book

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Author : James A. Banks,Jean Dresden Grambs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004745934

Get Book

Black Self-concept by James A. Banks,Jean Dresden Grambs Pdf

Non-Aboriginal material.