Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death the store was filled with

the store was filled with the sound of Christmas carols sung by thousands of shoppers

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

thought-provoking and challenging at times

the brother whose drug use went unchecked

given by The Independent Publisher Book Award

Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death the store was filled withIn 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