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The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York. In The New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city. Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge's ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York's middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class.
Middle class African Americans --- African diaspora --- Social conditions. --- Queens (New York, N.Y.) --- Long Island (N.Y.) --- Race relations. --- 1960s. --- 21st century. --- african american middle class. --- african diaspora. --- american south. --- black american middle class. --- black identities. --- black immigrants. --- cultural interactions. --- cultural landscape. --- culture. --- diverse groups. --- global south. --- long island. --- multinational black middle class. --- new york. --- political. --- queens. --- race issues. --- race politics. --- suburban neighborhoods. --- suburbia.
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Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging and Civil Rights examines the construction of blackness within shifting post-civil rights, post-colonial and neo-colonial contexts. It examines understudied locations and protagonists, and it articulates the necessarily ambiguous aspirations, goals, protest rationales and strategies associated with the reclamation of agency and the affirmation of self. In this volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or other southern "bulwarks" of the civil rights movement; and diverse Africans in France and Afro-descended Chileans illustrate the many-faceted struggle for recognition and belonging. The essays assembled in Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles are salient and timely. The volume helps to contextualize the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. By critically reading and connecting different Black experiences in various global regions, cultures, and communities, this volume pushes beyond the usual case studies of the American Civil Rights struggle. In doing so, it offers fresh perspectives on familiar concepts such as activism and belonging, suggesting more innovative approaches for the study of African diasporic experience in the 21st century.
Black people --- Social conditions. --- Blacks --- Charleston, South Carolina --- black diaspora --- Civil Rights --- African American Theatre --- Mobility, Belonging and Activism in the Atlantic World --- Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane --- Black struggle --- Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century --- Afro-Chilean --- Diaspora --- Global Identities, Black Nationalism --- Black Identities --- Blackness --- Black --- Calixthe Beyala's Le Petit Prince de Belleville --- Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette --- displacement --- identity, struggle and belonging --- Afro-Chilean Activism at the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America --- 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago's Northern Suburbs --- La Métrople --- Black activism --- La Métropole
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