Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death In both the colonial past

In both the colonial past and the postcolonial present

given by The Independent Publisher Book Award

liberals value legal rights for precisely the same reason that communitarians seek to limit their scope: they privilege the individual over the community

the brother whose drug use went unchecked

She allows for renewed academic and personal insights to blossom by using a blend of transnational feminist theory

Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death In both the colonial pastIn 1965, the Hart Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the CaribbeanJamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics? As black immigrants, to which America do they assimilate? Constructing Black Selves explores the cultural production of second generation Caribbean