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2. "What, Then, Is the African American?" African and Afro-Caribbean Identities in Black America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Violet M. Showers (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- University of Illinois Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of American Ethnic History
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(1) : 77-103
- Notes:
- Discusses the oral and written life histories and other personal testimonies of African Americans. It clears up the realities behind invisible enclaves and spotlight of the immigrant's own history. Professor John H. McWhorter argues that modern America is the home to millions of immigrants who were born in Africa. He notes that their cultures and identities are separated between Africa and the U.S. However, his vision of an unencumbered, native-born black ownership of black is considered optimistic. Transnational identities of immigrants and their children are formed, negotiated and projected primarily within their experiences.
3. <Black Diversity in New York City: West Indians, Haitians, African Americans>. (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Robotham,Don (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- September, 2002
- Published:
- Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Anthropologist
- Journal Title Details:
- 104(3) : 967
4. Black Migration to Atlanta: Metropolitan Spatial Patterns and Popular Representation, 1990--2012
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Abbott,Frances (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Georgia: Emory University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 191 p., How does recent black migration impact Atlanta's geographies of black life? Since 1990, the Atlanta metropolitan region has become a major destination for three groups of black migrants from disparate origins: native-born "return south" blacks from other U.S. regions, Afro-Caribbean immigrants, and sub-Saharan African immigrants. These migrants' ethnic diversity dismantles existing notions of "black" culture, politics, and place. Black Migration to Atlanta revises scholarship by demonstrating that we cannot understand the complexity of black lives in Atlanta without investigating the complex relationship between space, migration, and popular culture. Atlanta emerges not just as an urban core, but as a region --a multiplicity of metropolitan sites--imagined and contested through residential patterns, commercial geographies, and popular culture's attempts to accommodate cultural and geographic shifts brought by recent black migration.
5. 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.
6. Live & Kicking: Stop the New Slavery; Black culture's dependence on the body beautiful is nothing less than fascism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sewell,Tony (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-01-15
- Published:
- London
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Voice
- Journal Title Details:
- 943 : 9
- Notes:
- The irony of the black man with his top off - such as almost any black music star you care to mention - is that it doesn't say to me: "Look at this wonderful black man with his six-pack." We were never wanted for our minds, which was why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. We were flesh, a commodity, labour. As today's black man shows off his pride and joy, the modern billboard becomes the equivalent of yesteryear's slave stocks. The tragedy with the flesh doesn't end there. Too many of us are impressed by a black fascism which fails to question the oppressive power structures of idealised family structures or the obsession with genes, blood and national pride.
7. Locational Returns to Human Capital Levels: The Case of black African and black Caribbean Immigrants
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Argeros,Grigoris (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: Fordham University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 155 p., The present dissertation examines nativity-status and place-of-birth-differences in locational outcomes among native-born black American, and foreign-born black Caribbean and black African households. The main objective is to evaluate the degree to which the spatial assimilation model, which was formulated to capture the experience of white European ethnic groups arriving to the U.S. during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, can describe the outcomes of black immigrant ethnic groups arriving to the U.S. in the late twentieth century. Using data from the five percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 2000 Census extracted from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), I investigate the degree to which native-born black Americans and foreign-born black Caribbeans and black Africans are able to translate their individual-level socioeconomic status attainments, such as income and educational levels, into residence in suburban versus central-city neighborhoods. In addition I also test to see if black immigrants' returns to their socioeconomic attainments differed from those of native-born blacks. This study contributes to the literature on immigrant socioeconomic and locational attainment in three ways. First, it revisits traditional residential assimilation theories, and attempts to identify the factors that enable black immigrants to reside in qualitatively different neighborhoods compared to those in which native-born black Americans reside. Second, it examines intra-ethnic black locational outcomes by place-of-birth/national origin status. Finally, up-to-date census data will provide an updated snapshot of black immigrants' socioeconomic and residential status attainments, an important endeavor given the large increase in size and diversity for this population.
8. Mental Health of Black Caribbean Immigrants: Results from the National Survey of American Life
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Williams,David R. (Author), Rahwa,Haile (Author), and Neighbors,Harold W. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- January, 2007
- Published:
- New York: American Public Health Association
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Journal Title Details:
- 97(1) : 52-59
- Notes:
- Examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Black Caribbean immigrant ("Caribbean Black") and African American populations and the correlates of psychiatric disorders among the Caribbean Black population
9. Point of order; The new Haitian revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clyne,Reginald (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 30-Apr 5, 2005
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 31 : 3A
- Notes:
- One group of Black immigrants have become involved in the economic and political life of Miami, and their power is being felt in North Dade. I call this the New Haitian Revolution. It began on many fronts. I remember listening to some Black American men laughing-at Haitians because family members would pool their money to buy a home. Multiple families would live in the house, and then the families would pool together and buy another house. Eventually, all of the Haitian families would own a home. I wonder what those same Black men are saying now, when Haitians now own homes and their detractors are still renting. This was the start of a quiet new Haitian revolution. Haitians working together to improve their economic fortunes - a method employed by other successful immigrant groups such as Jews and Cubans. The revolution took place quietly, but it is now clear that there is a new power group in this community. Haitians have started successful medical practices, radio stations, law firms, and other businesses. They have taken over the politics of the City of North Miami, and are one of the new power groups being courted by anyone running a county wide race.
10. Race, Ideology, and Culture in Cuba: Recent Scholarship
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fuente,Alejandro de la (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000
- Published:
- Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American Research Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(3) : 199-210
- Notes:
- Reviews several books regarding Cuban history which focused on the areas of race, identities, ideology and nationhood. Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution, by Lisa Brock and Digna Castaneda; `El Directorio Central de las Sociedades Negras de Cuba, 1886-1894,'by Oilda Hevia Lanier; Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940, by Robin Moore.;