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    1. (Re) framing the nation the Afro-Cuban challenge to Black and Latino struggles for American identity

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gosin,Monika (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    La Jolla: University of California, San Diego
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    311 p., Focuses on conflict and convergence among African Americans, Cuban exiles, and Afro-Cubans in the United States. Argues that the racializing discourses found in the Miami Times, which painted Cuban immigrants as an economic threat, and discourses in the Herald, which affirmed the presumed inferiority of blackness and superiority of whiteness, reproduce the centrality of ideologies of exclusivity and white supremacy in the construction of the U.S. nation.

    2. A Note on the Influence of African Heritage on Segregation. The Case of Dominicans

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Freeman,Lance (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Sep 1999
    Published:
    United Kingdom: Sage Publications Ltd.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Urban Affairs Review
    Journal Title Details:
    35(1) : 137-146
    Notes:
    The African heritage hypothesis posits that the substantial African ancestry of Puerto Ricans explains why this group is less segregated from African-Americans than non-Hispanic whites. This pattern is unlike that of other Hispanic groups, who have been found to be highly segregated from African-Americans but modestly segregated from whites. The research presented here shows that Dominicans, another Hispanic group with substantial African ancestry, are also less segregated from African-Americans than whites. Dominicans, therefore, also appear to be conforming to the African heritage thesis by residing in neighborhoods with greater proximity to African-Americans than whites.