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Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans

We, Too, Sing America

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  1. Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot

    1. Northeastern University, Boston, USA

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  • Provides accounts of the issues facing an often overlooked group: second generation Caribbean immigrants (and the black middle class in America more generally)

  • Is timely given the growth of the Caribbean black population in America in recent years and their relative lack of recognition and visibility in academic literature

  • Identifies and discusses many of the similarities and differences between black immigrants and native blacks in the United States

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: My Personal and Scholarly Journey

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 1-8

  3. Un-Othering the Black Experience: Storytelling and Sociology

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 9-37

  4. What Does Race Have to Do with It?

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 39-64

  5. Blackness as Experience

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 65-107

  6. Habitus of Blackness and the Confluence of Middle Class-ness

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 109-152

  7. From Lessons Learned to Real-life Performances of Cultural Capital and Habitus

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 153-196

  8. Performing Identity in Public

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 197-238

  9. Transnational Community Ties, Black Philanthropy, and Triple Identity Consciousness

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 239-259

  10. We, Too, Sing America: Where Do We Go from Here?

    • Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
    Pages 261-275

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 277-292
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About this book

This volume addresses how black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of race, black economic mobility, and immigrant communities in the US. Based on rich ethnography, Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot draws attention to this persisting invisibility by exploring this generation’s experiences in challenging structures of oppression as adult children of post-1965 Caribbean immigrants and as an important part of the African-American middle class. She recounts compelling stories from participants regarding their identity performances in public and private spaces—including what it means to be “black and making it in America”—as well as the race, gender, and class constraints they face as part of a larger transnational community. 

Reviews

“Lorick-Wilmot shows how her respondents filter (gender, sexual, ethnic) identity through specific geographies and distinct front- and back-stage personas that guide how Afro-Caribbeans ‘move through the world.’ Avoiding common assimilationist thinking in the study of immigrants, she melds postcolonial, intersectional, and double consciousness frames as she checks still-resonant assumptions (á la Moynihan and his ilk) of what it means to be black in the USA.” (Vilna Bashi Treitler, PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)

“Building on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Lorick-Wilmot formulates the notion of triple identity consciousness and mounts a compelling critique of the endurance of white supremacy. Among her respondents, she finds a palpable commitment to the advancement of ‘positive human excellence for all’.”(Steven J. Gold, PhD, Michigan State University, USA)

“In the engaging, self-reflexive style of an oral history, Lorick-Wilmot uses undervalued but necessary frameworks of class, post-colonial theory, transnationality, and the diaspora to show that the middle class, second generation Caribbean experience is also the Black American experience.”(Nadia Y. Kim, PhD, Loyola Marymount University, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Northeastern University, Boston, USA

    Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot

About the author

Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot, PhD is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, USA, and a social research consultant for nonprofits and philanthropies across the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans

  • Book Subtitle: We, Too, Sing America

  • Authors: Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62208-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62207-1Published: 11 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87258-2Published: 11 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62208-8Published: 29 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 292

  • Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Sociology of Racism, Social Theory

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