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2. African American and Black Caribbean Mutual Feelings of Closeness: Findings From a National Probability Survey
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Thornton,Michael C. (Author), Taylor,Robert Joseph (Author), and Chatters,Linda M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013 NOV
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Black Studies (J.Black Stud.)
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(8) : 798-828
- Notes:
- African American and Black Caribbean relations are described as strained. Standard portrayals of Black Caribbeans as a "model minority" that has effectively assimilated into the American landscape often make explicit their distinctiveness from and enmity toward African Americans. Analysis using National Survey of American Life data (N = 6,082), exploring the nature and correlates of intergroup perceptions, reveals that both groups characterize their mutual relationships as being close. Gender and region of residence influence African American feelings of closeness toward Black Caribbeans, while for Black Caribbeans, perceived discrimination was significantly associated with feelings of closeness to African Americans. Black Caribbean immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries and Haiti felt closer to African Americans than did Jamaicans. In addition, foreign-born Black Caribbeans (first generation) felt closer to Black people from the Caribbean than second-generation Black Caribbeans. These and other findings are discussed in relation to research on intergroup closeness among African Americans and Black Caribbeans.
3. African American, Black Caribbean, and Non-Hispanic White Feelings of Closeness Toward Other Racial and Ethnic Groups
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Thornton,Michael C. (Author), Taylor,Robert Joseph (Author), and Chatters,Linda M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 OCT
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Black Studies (J.Black Stud.)
- Journal Title Details:
- 43(7) : 749-772
- Notes:
- This study examines African Americans', Black Caribbeans', and non-Hispanic Whites' perceptions of closeness to other racial and ethnic groups. The study uses data from a national probability sample, the National Survey of American Life (N = 6,082), and provides the first investigation of this topic among Black Caribbeans. Study findings reveal both similarities and significant differences between African Americans and Black Caribbeans in their levels of closeness to other groups. African Americans and Black Caribbeans were similar in their levels of closeness to Whites, American Indians, and Asian Americans. African Americans felt significantly closer to Black people in the United States than did Black Caribbeans. Conversely, Black Caribbeans felt significantly closer than African Americans to Black people from the Caribbean, Spanish-speaking people, and Black people in Africa. Non-Hispanic Whites felt significantly closer to Asian Americans than did either African Americans or Black Caribbeans. These and other findings are discussed in detail and reaffirm the continued importance of race in American life and intergroup relations.
4. The History of Black Studies in Japan: Origin and Development
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kato,Tsunehiko (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013 NOV
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Black Studies (J.Black Stud.)
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(8) : 829-845
- Notes:
- In the pre-war days, the most of Black studies in Japan were politically exploited to justify the national imperialistic policy. In the post-war period, however, with the start of the Cold War, Japan Black Studies Association (JBSA) was established in 1954 by the people who believed that the American democracy was problematic as long as Blacks were segregated in the South. From the middle of the 1950s and the 1960s, to study the struggles of Black people for freedom in the world encouraged JBSA members in their efforts to be part of social movements for democratic transformation of Japanese society. And from the 1970s and the 1980s, when the agenda of women liberation was on the table in Japan, JBSA focused upon the works of Black women in the world. And the works of Caribbean women writers as well as those of Black British writers also came into view.