Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans We, Too, Sing America /

• Main Author: Lorick-Wilmot, Yndia S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social structure.; Social inequality.; Cultural studies.; Ethnography.; Racism in the social sciences.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Cultural Studies.; Sociology of Racism.; Social Theory.

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 invisibil...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Un-Othering the Black Experience: Storytelling and Sociology
• 2. What Does Race Have To Do With It?
• 3. Blackness as Experience
• 4. Habitus of Blackness and the Confluence of Middle Class-ness
• 5. From Lessons Learned to Real-life Performances of Cultural Capital and Habitus
• 6. Performing Identity in Public
• 7. Transnational Community Ties, Black Philanthropy, and Triple Identity Consciousness
• 8. We, Too, Sing America: Where do we go from here?