Black Immigrants in North America: Essays on Race, Immigration, Identity, Language, Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Becoming Black

Black Immigrants in North America: Essays on Race, Immigration, Identity, Language, Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Becoming BlackThe first wave of Black immigrants arrived in North America during the 1960s and 1970s, coming originally from the Caribbean. An opportunity was missed however, in documenting their everyday experience from a social science perspective: what did it mean for a Barbadian or a Jamaican to live in Toronto or New York? Were they Jamaicans or did they go with the descriptor Black? What relationship did they have with African Canadians or African Americans?

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and respect associated with the family's name

The Volokh Conspiracy calls Butler’s account of his trial "the most riveting first chapter I have ever read

Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America

Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land

and the basic measures to prevent disease – waste removal

It’s a race against time to rescue their dear friend

Illustrated edition (June 2

when Ethan didn't have a life

and Tipton's most fierce enemy

” Malcolm X declared in a 1962 speech