In this important new book, Chonika Coleman-King probes the complex challenges confronting immigrant children from the English-speaking Caribbean as they navigate school and undergo transformations to their national and racial identities. In contrast to earlier studies that have offered broad generalizations about Caribbean immigrants, this book provides a detailed and nuanced analysis on the experience of these students as they strive for academic success while negotiating the reality of race in America. Clear, insightful, and well-documented, this book is an important contribution to the field of education and to existing research on immigrants. (Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University)
America's Black population, like the rest of American society, is being profoundly impacted by immigration. What it means to be Black, always complex but taken for granted, is becoming even more complex as immigrants force consideration of ethnicity alongside monolithic notions of race. In The (Re-)Making of a Black American, Chonika Coleman-King demonstrates, excellently, how these dynamics play out in the school system and their implications for American society as a whole. (Milton Vickerman, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia)
In this important new book, Chonika Coleman-King probes the complex challenges confronting immigrant children from the English-speaking Caribbean as they navigate school and undergo transformations to their national and racial identities. In contrast to earlier studies that have offered broad generalizations about Caribbean immigrants, this book provides a detailed and nuanced analysis on the experience of these students as they strive for academic success while negotiating the reality of race in America. Clear, insightful, and well-documented, this book is an important contribution to the field of education and to existing research on immigrants. (Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University)
America's Black population, like the rest of American society, is being profoundly impacted by immigration. What it means to be Black, always complex but taken for granted, is becoming even more complex as immigrants force consideration of ethnicity alongside monolithic notions of race. In The (Re-)Making of a Black American, Chonika Coleman-King demonstrates, excellently, how these dynamics play out in the school system and their implications for American society as a whole. (Milton Vickerman, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia)
