Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans
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
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YNDIA S. LORICK-WILMOT
Praise for Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans
“Told mainly through vignettes, Yndia Lorick-Wilmot shows how her Black Caribbean middle class 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 the more common assimilationist to studying 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 and finds among respondents a palpable commitment to the advancement of ‘positive human excellence for all.’” —Steven J. Gold, PhD, Michigan State University, USA “In an engaging, self-reflexive style of oral history, Lorick-Wilmot uses undervalued but necessary frameworks of class, post-colonial theory, transnationality, and the diaspora to show that the middle class Caribbean second generation is also the Black American experience.” —Nadia Y. Kim, PhD, Loyola Marymount University, USA
“Lorick-Wilmot offers a compelling account from a decolonized perspective, which refuses to accept the one-dimensionality of white imperial supremacy as the only reality to understand adult children of Caribbean immigrants.” —Silvia Dominquez, PhD, MSW, Northeastern University, USA
Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot
Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans We, Too, Sing America
Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-62207-1 ISBN 978-3-319-62208-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-62208-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017947767 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warran
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