Black Immigrants in the United States: Essays on the Politics of Race, Language, and Voice Cooper Ayanna
Black Immigrants in the United States: Essays on the Politics of Race, Language, and Voice Cooper Ayanna In the United States, 'immigrant' is a complicated category. Black Immigrants in the United…
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Black Immigrants in the United States: Essays on the Politics of Race, Language, and Voice Cooper Ayanna
In the United States, 'immigrant' is a complicated category. Black Immigrants in the United States is arguing that immigrants are not refugees and, whether coming from the Caribbean, Latin America or Africa, Black immigrants are oft-silenced in immigration studies and unsystematically researched. It is used interchangeably with 'refugee' and it is, most of the time, linked to South America, especially Latina/os.
For example, did you know that 12-13% of the statistically defined as African Americans are 'Black immigrants' (both immigrants and refugees) (Ogunipe, Being one of the first books on the topic in the United States, Black Immigrants in the United States is a crack, a verse in the syntax which links Blackness and immigration; a required reading for anyone who is interested in immigration generally and Black immigration in particular.