Drawing on data collected during a 2-year Economic and Social Research Council-funded project exploring the educational perspectives and strategies of middle-class families with a Black Caribbean heritage, this paper examines how participants, in professional or managerial occupations, position themselves in relation to the label 'middle class'.
"[Examines] le développement historique et socio-économique des Caraïbes dans le roman de Paule Marshall: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (publié en 1963), à travers la relation de deux femmes, l'une noire, l'autre blanche, dont les destins et l'héritage sont liés à l'histoire particulière des relations de genre caractéristiques de l'esclavage et de la vie sur les plantations." (Refdoc.fr)
The purpose of this paper is to explore how ethnicity remains relevant to the workplace experience of minority ethnic graduate employees in contemporary British organizations. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 30 British Black Caribbean graduate employees drawn from a range of public and private-sector organizations to examine the ways in which they felt their ethnicity impacted on how they experienced their places of work.
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389 p., Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.
he author criticizes scholarship by Trevor Burnard and attempts to demonstrate the need to systematize a framework that captures the complexity of West Indian social structure and looks beyond the most visceral racial divide on the one hand or the merely local on the other. Burnard, in his recent book on Thomas Thistlewood, the eighteenth-century Jamaican overseer, pen-keeper, and slaveowning diarist, notes the spirit of egalitarianism that existed among Whites in Jamaica and the absence of class conflict among them, despite clear socioeconomic differences. The argument is clearly correct on a number of points, and not without significant merit and insight, Green argues. The fact that race trumped class in the White créole imagination and that recruitment to political office was of necessity inclusive of "lesser Whites" should not in any way provide an excuse for leaving those inequalities unexamined--especially when they formed a key constitutive element in the production of empire, she continues.;
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135 p., "Colonie britannique depuis 1655, la Jamaïque obtient son indépendance en 1962. Destination d'un voyage sans retour pour près d'un million d'Africains déportés, l'île est rongée par les cicatrices mémorielles de l'esclavage. Dominée par les Créoles, paupérisée et confrontée à une offre politique nationale inadaptée, la population africaine souffre de l'absence d'une identité noire revendiquée et institutionnalisée. De ce déni de reconnaissance officielle jailliront des mouvements alternatifs, dont la célèbre communauté rastafarienne. Incitant à réfléchir sur les mécanismes d'émergence des groupes identitaires, ce travail met en lumière l'importance de l'histoire et des problématiques de la mémoire dans le processus de construction des identités sociales et souligne le rôle central de la culture dans les luttes de pouvoir"--P. [4] of cover.
The links between social connectedness and the health experiences of men have been a neglected focus for research. Findings indicate that African-Caribbean and white working-class fathers, in the United Kingdom, were involved in solitary ways of feeling, thinking, and acting to deal with the vulnerability associated with health concerns, the psychological experience of stress, and difficulties in personal relationships. Those solitary experiences were associated, within men's stories, with conservative and complicit forms of masculinity.
Rosemblatt,Karin Alejandra (Editor), Appelbaum,Nancy (Editor), and MacPherson,Anne S. (Editor)
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Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2003
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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
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Synopsis This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Includes Anne S. Macpherson's "Imagining the colonial nation: race, gender, and middle-class politics in Belize, 1888-1898" and Peter Wade's "Race and nation in Latin America: an anthropological view"
Mörner,Magnus (Author) and Conference on Race and Class in Latin America (1965: New York, NY.)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1970
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New York: Columbia University Press
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309 p, Includes Gonzalo Aquirre Beltrán's "The abolition of slavery and its aftermath. The integration of the Negro into the national society of Mexico"; Carlos M. Rama's "The passing of the Afro-Uruguayans from caste society into class society"; Richard Graham's "Action and ideas in the abolitionist movement in Brazil"; Harry Hoetink's "The Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century: some notes on stratefication, immigration, and race"; and Florestan Fernandes' "Immigration and race relations in São Paulo";
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371 p, Contents: Race and class in Mexico / Woodrow Borah -- On the concept of social race in the Americas / Charles Wagley -- Colour prejudice in Brazil / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Mass immigration and modernization in Argentina / Gino Germani -- Race, color, and class in Central America and the Andes / Julian Pitt-Rivers -- Beyond poverty : the Negro and the mulatto in Brazil / Florestan Fernandes -- The present status of Afro-American research in Latin America / Roger Bastide -- African culture in Brazilian art / Abdias Do Nascimento -- A comparative study of the assimilation of the Chinese in New York City and Lima, Peru / Bernard Wong -- Ethnicity, secret societies, and associations : the Japanese in Brazil / Takashi Maeyama -- Research in the political economy of Afro-Latin America / Pierre-Michel Fontaine -- Minority oppression : toward analyses that clarify and strategies that liberate / William Bollinger and Daniel Manny Lund -- Brazilian racial democracy : reality or myth? / Carlos Hasenbalg and Suellen Huntington -- Race and class in Brazil : historical perspectives / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Peasant politics and the Mexican state : indigenous compliance in highland Chiapas / George A. Collier -- Black political protest in São Paulo, 1888-1988 / George Reid Andrews -- Challenging the nation-state in Latin America/ Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Rethinking race in Brazil / Howard Winant
Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California
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160 p, Contents: Race and class in Brazil /; Thomas E. Skidmore --; Race and socioeconomic inequalities in Brazil /; Carlos A. Hasenbalg --; Updating the cost of not being white in Brazil /; Nelson do Valle Silva --; Blacks and the search for power in Brazil /; Pierre-Michel Fontaine --; Brown into Black /; J. Michael Turner --; Blacks and the abertura democrática /; Michael Mitchell --; The unified Black movement /; Lélia Gonzalez --; The African connection and the Afro-Brazilian condition /; Anani Dzidzienyo
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341 p, Michel Giraud writes about the different races and classes in Martinique. He expands on the social relations between children of different colors to school.
Brings Afro-Caribbean women to the fore of a discussion of Costa Rican citizenship. Explores the relationship between ideologies of gender, imageries of black womanhood, and the dialectic of citizenship and exclusion.
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.
Is the contemporary second generation on the road to the upward mobility and assimilation that in retrospect characterized the second generation of earlier immigrations? Or are the American economic context and the racial origins of today's immigration likely to result in a much less favorable future for the contemporary second generation? While several recent papers have argued for the latter position, we suspect they are too pessimistic. We briefly review the Second generation upward mobility in the past and then turn to the crucial comparisons between past and present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
The concept of the ghetto, referring to specifically urban experiences of sociospatial marginalization, has played a prominent role in black popular culture. This article explores the role of the ghetto as a discursive space of immobility and traces its global journey as a mobile imaginary.
An analysis of the educational attainment and progress between age 11 and age 14 of over 14,500 students in England. Socioeconomic variables could account for the attainment gaps for Black African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi students, but not for Black Caribbean students. Black Caribbean students were distinctive as the only group making less "progress" than White British students between age 11 and 14 and this could not be accounted for by any of the measured contextual variables. Possible explanations for the White British-Black Caribbean gap are considered.
Between 1873 and 1917, the numbers of Barbadian women committed to penal custody on an annual basis surpassed those of men. Available figures for Jamaica and Trinidad over sections of the period hover around an 18–20 percent female proportion rate, while in Barbados the rate usually exceeded 50 percent.
