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"Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of West Indian intellectuals to investigate the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 40,000 black immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island during the first wave of Caribbean...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brown, Tammy L., 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social justice.
Race relations.
Intellectuals.
Intellectual life.
Immigrants.
Emigration and immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Justice sociale > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Intellectuels > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Americains d'origine antillaise > New York (État) > New York > Vie intellectuelle.
Social justice > New York (State) > New York > History.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Intellectuals > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
West Indian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government.
West Indian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life.
West Indies.
New York (State) > New York.
Antilles > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
West Indies > Emigration and immigration > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:"Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of West Indian intellectuals to investigate the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 40,000 black immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island during the first wave of Caribbean immigration to New York hailed from the English-speaking Caribbean--mainly Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad. Arriving at the height of the Industrial Revolution and a new era in black culture and progress, these black immigrants dreamed of a more prosperous future. However, northern-style Jim Crow hindered their upward social mobility. In response, Caribbean intellectuals delivered speeches and sermons, wrote poetry and novels, and created performance art pieces challenging the racism that impeded their success. Brown traces the influences of religion as revealed at Unitarian minister Ethelred Brown's Harlem Community Church and in Richard B. Moore's fiery speeches on Harlem street corners during the age of the 'New Negro.' She investigates the role of performance art and Pearl Primus's declaration that 'dance is a weapon for social change' during the long civil rights movement. Shirley Chisholm's advocacy for women and all working-class Americans in the House of Representatives and as a presidential candidate during the peak of the Feminist Movement moves the book into more overt politics. Novelist Paule Marshall's insistence that black immigrant women be seen and heard in the realm of American Arts and Letters at the advent of 'multiculturalism' reveals the power of literature. The wide-ranging styles of West Indian campaigns for social justice reflect the expansive imaginations and individual life stories of each intellectual Brown studies. In addition to deepening our understanding of the long battle for racial equality in America, these life stories reveal the powerful interplay between personal and public politics"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9781626746435

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