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2. Being Black, becoming British: Contemporary female voices in Black British literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sandapen,Sheila Francoise Theresa (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Pennsylvania: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 270 p., This dissertation focuses on women voices in Black British Literature between the period 1980 and 2005 - specifically in the works of Monica Ali, Zadie Smith, Joan Riley, Ravinder Randhawa, Meera Syal and Gurinder Chadha - and seeks to understand how women who are of Caribbean and South Asian descent form and reform their identities in their new home as immigrants or first-generation Britons and why their stories make a valuable and essential contribution to Black British Literature.
3. Double Jeopardy? Female African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Corra,Mamadi K. (Author) and Kimuna,Sitawa R. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009 July
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(6) : 1015-1035
- Notes:
- Uses United States census data from the 1990 and 2000 to examine the earnings attainment for Black immigrant women (Africans and English-, French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbeans) and native-born Black women (African Americans). Data for both samples reveal sizeable earnings differences between the five groups. African, English and French Caribbean immigrant women exhibit noticeably higher average earnings than African Americans. However, with controls for earnings-related measures, the African immigrant advantage is eliminated in the 1990 sample, but not the English and French Caribbean immigrant advantage, nor the Spanish Caribbean immigrant disadvantage. No significant earnings difference was found between African Americans, English and Spanish Caribbean immigrants in the 2000 sample. Conversely, African and French Caribbean immigrants' earnings were significantly lower than those for African Americans.
4. Ivy League or nothing: Influences of Caribbean American students' college aspiration and choice
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Burrell-McRae,Karlene AP (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 172 p., Although selective colleges and universities boast higher numbers of Black students more than ever before, new data show that a disproportionate number of these Black students are of immigrant-origin rather than native-born. The data also show that students of immigrant origin (at least one parent born outside the United States) attend selective, predominantly White institutions and Ivy League colleges and universities at disproportionately higher rates than native Black students (both parents born in the United States).
5. Living with sugar: Socioeconomic status and cultural beliefs about type 2 diabetes among Afro-Caribbean women
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,Chrystal A. S. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Florida: University of South Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 356 p., In the U.S., individuals of Afro-Caribbean and Latino descent are two to three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. Caribbean and Latin America migrants, particularly minority women bear a disproportionate burden of type 2 diabetes and its risk factors. The purpose of this research is to investigate if Afro-Caribbean women share a cultural belief model about type 2 diabetes and how this belief model, along with structural barriers to health care, influence disease risk and management. A sample of 40 women, primarily Jamaican and Trinidadian, 35 to 90 years of age previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were recruited in southwest Florida.
6. Negotiations of the complicitous nature of US racial/ethnic categorization: Exploring rhetorical strategies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Orbe,Mark P. (Author) and Drummond,Darlene K. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Western Journal of Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 73(4) : 437-455
- Notes:
- Explores the multiple ways in which diverse individuals negotiate the nature of U.S. racial and ethnic categories in terms of self-descriptive labels. Draws from narratives of 100 individuals who participated in 13 different focus groups over a 9-month period (September 2006 to May 2007). Through their everyday rhetoric, individuals who were born primarily in the Caribbean or Central and South America and then immigrated to the US were most likely to resist essentialist racial and ethnic labels.
7. Review of On beauty by Zadie Smith (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Warikoo,Natasha Kumar (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sociological Forum
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(2) : 468-471
- Notes:
- Reviews a novel about the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States. In its depiction of African Americans, White Americans, Britons, and Caribbean immigrants, the book demonstrates Americans' obsession with race. In addition to the contrast between desires for racial authenticity and class mobility, Smith’s novel exposes the variability of Black America, and especially the intersection between class and race.
8. The Racial Unconscious Of Assimilation Theory
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jung,Moon-Kie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009 fall
- Published:
- New York, NY: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(2) : 375-395
- Notes:
- In the past two decades, migration scholars have revised and revitalized assimilation theory to study the large and growing numbers of migrants from Latin America, Asia, and the Caribbean and their offspring in the United States. Neoclassical and segmented assimilation theories seek to make sense of the current wave of migration that differs in important ways from the last great wave at the turn of the 20th century and to overcome the conceptual shortcomings of earlier theories of assimilation that it inspired. This article examines some of the central assumptions and arguments of the new theories.
9. Transnational spaces and identities in the francophone world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gafaïti,Hafid (Author), Lorcin,Patricia M. E. (Author), and Troyansky,David G. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 460 p, Includes Joseph Militello's "Madwoman in the Senegalese Muslim attic: reading Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane and Mariama Bâ's Un chant écarlate"
10. U.S. reviewing deportation policy on Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2009
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : 6
- Notes:
- The State Department revealed that an estimated 30,000 undocumented Haitians face deportation to their homeland. [Hillary Clinton], however, said the U.S. will look closely at the issue "and try to come up with some appropriate responses to the challenges posed." A large number of legislators and immigration advocates have been calling on the Obama administration to grant TPS to Haitians as the U.S. has done for other countries, such as Honduras and Nicaragua. Last month, two prominent U.S. Democratic senators - Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote U.S. President Barack Obama, expressing deep concern about the status of Haitians here.