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2. African Caribbean Immigrant Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, and Psychological Outcomes
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wright,Roshane S. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- District of Columbia: Howard University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 104 p., According to the 2010 census Caribbean immigrants make up 49% of the Black immigrant population of the United States, yet there remains a limited amount of acculturation research with Caribbean immigrants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between acculturation, ethnic identity, and psychological outcomes in a sample of immigrants of African-Caribbean descent. Using Berry's (1997) theoretical framework for acculturation research, the author hypothesized that ethnic identity mediates the relationship between acculturation and psychological outcomes. A sample of adult, self-identified immigrants of African-Caribbean descent recruited in the Houston metropolitan area completed a survey packet that included a bidimensional measure of acculturation, a measure of ethnic identity, and scales of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and depression.
3. Caribbean : economics, migrants and control : an analysis of socio-cultural and economic dependence
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Greene,Gladstone F. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Xlibris
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 85 p., Contends that Caribbean migrants are adopting the foreign culture, sports, food, clothes and behavior at a rapid pace while at the same time losing knowledge of the native environment. Many of the "recent migrants" who are seen on the streets in Brooklyn or elsewhere or in the schools are hardly distinguishable from inner city African Americans suggesting that dominant society influence coupled with the desire to fit in pervade the entire raison d'etre even before the immigrants arrive.
4. Caribbean issues in the Indian Dispora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mahabir,Noor Kumar (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- January-March, 2013
- Published:
- New Delhi: Serials Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Man in India
- Journal Title Details:
- 93 (1)
- Notes:
- Special journal issue., 211 p., During the colonial era, after abolition of slavery in 1833, the British faced extreme shortage of labor for sugar plantation in their sugar producing colonies of the Caribbean. To overcome this problem, over half a million Indians were transported to the region as indentured workers (often called as Indian coolies) with false hopes and promises.
5. Caribbean issues in the Indian diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mahabir,Kumar (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Delhi: Serials Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a conference held in 2011., 270 p., Illustrates the neglect of emotions and feelings in the historiography of the people of the Bhojpuri areas in India who migrated to the plantation colonies in the Caribbean; analyses assimilation, mainly in the form of Christian conversion of Hindu and Muslim migrants, which resulted in the absence of mandirs and mosques, and the virtual lack of traditional Indian festivals and ceremonies in Belize, Venezuela and St. Lucia; deals with the plurality of ethnic identities, which is in fact the opposite of assimilation; and discusses the social adaptations and reproductions in forms such as Islamic spaces in politics as well as Bollywood movies.
6. Coping with Perceived Discrimination
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Head,Rachel Nicole (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- North Carolina: North Carolina State University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 196 p., While some scholars contend that Caribbean Black Americans' socioeconomic successes suggest the declining significance of racism, ethnographic studies have found that Black Caribbean Americans are often shocked, disheartened, and angered by the racism they encounter in the U.S. Findings suggest that racism is an enduring problem in the U.S. for both foreign and native-born Black Americans and that it cannot simply be dismissed as a worldview that serves to protect one's sense of self-worth. Itappears to be an obstacle for Caribbean Black Americans pursuing the American dream and may be associated with decreasing perceptions among Caribbean Black professionals that hard work and perseverance are all one needs to succeed in the U.S.
7. No U.S. Diversity Visas for Jamaicans, Haitians
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2013
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 : 2
- Notes:
- The visas are distributed among six geographic regions, with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States over the period of the past five years, as in the case of Jamaica and Haiti.
8. Postwar Jamaican immigrants in Brixton, England 1948-1962: Citizenship, transnationalism and communalism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hunter,Virgillo Amando (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New York: Syracuse University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 161 p., Today little is known about the lives of the Windrush population and the settlement of Today little is known about the lives of the Windrush population and the settlement of Caribbeans in Brixton, London despite the large body of research on postwar Jamaican immigrants who migrated to England during the immediate postwar era (1948-1962). Previous scholarships on Jamaican immigrants primarily utilized quantitative methodologies to detail this history. However, this study recaptures some of the experiences through recorded documentations and oral narratives.
9. The Gendered Working Lives of Seven Jamaican Women in Canada: A Story about "Here" and "There" in a Transnational Economy
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lawson,Erica (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring2013
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Formations
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(1) : 138-156
- Notes:
- Discusses the 1978 case of seven Jamaican women who were to be deported from Canada and the questions the case raised about the value of women's labor and discriminatory immigration policies. Elucidates why the women, in their roles as mothers, decided to challenge the orders to leave Canada and illuminates the ways in which racialized women find the means to negotiate in-between spaces that allow them to survive.