Excerpts from “BLACK LIKE THEM” By Malcolm Gladwell:
“They are from Jamaica, and they don't consider themselves black at all. ...To a West Indian, black is a literal description: you are black if your skin is black. Noel's father is black...” “In 1994, Philip Kasinitz, a sociologist at Manhattan's Hunter College, and Jan Rosenberg, who teaches at Long Island University, conducted a study of the Red Hook area of Brooklyn; they found that the employers were unwilling to hire minorities from the neighborhood, but instead looked more favorably upon immigrants.” “As West Indians have noisily differentiated themselves from African-Americans--promoting the stereotype of themselves as the good blacks--they have made it easier for whites to join in. It was the infusion of white blood that gave the colored class its status in the Caribbean, and members of this class have never forgotten that.”
Malcolm Gladwell excerpt I see it’s a slow day to deflect from the rightwing aligned xenophobic agenda of the acronym group ! Yawn !![]()
Why did black Americans run from the South and now running back to South again.
You muthafuckas get gentrified so often, it should be an official holiday this point.
This played out regurgitated forced narrative is years old & stale, get new material from Yvette & tonetalkMy mistake. I should have posted the FULL article:
PERSONAL HISTORY about racism and West Indians in America. The writer's cousin Rosie and her husband, Noel, live in a two-bedroom bungalow on Argyle Avenue, in Uniondale, on the west end of Long Island. They are from Jamaica, and they don't consider themselves black at all. ...To a West Indian, black is a literal description: you are black if your skin is black. Noel's father is black... In the past 20 years, the number of West Indians in America has exploded. There are now a half a million in the New York area alone and, despite their recent arrival, they make substantially more money than American blacks. They live in better neighborhoods. Their families are stronger... What does it say about the nature of racism that another group of blacks, who have the same legacy of slavery as their American counterparts and are physically indistinguishable from them, can come here and succeed as well as the Chinese and the Koreans do? Is overcoming racism as simple as doing what Noel does, which is to dismiss it, to hold himself above it, to brave it and move on?... In 1994, Philip Kasinitz, a sociologist at Manhattan's Hunter College, and Jan Rosenberg, who teaches at Long Island University, conducted a study of the Red Hook area of Brooklyn; they found that the employers were unwilling to hire minorities from the neighborhood, but instead looked more favorably upon immigrants. The idea of the West Indian as a kind of superior black is not a new one. West Indians tend to encounter racism late in life, when they are much stronger. The example of West Indians as "good" blacks makes the old blanket prejudice against American blacks all the easier to accept.... This is racism's newest mutation--multicultural racism, where one ethnic group can be played off against another... As West Indians have noisily differentiated themselves from African-Americans--promoting the stereotype of themselves as the good blacks--they have made it easier for whites to join in. It was the infusion of white blood that gave the colored class its status in the Caribbean, and members of this class have never forgotten that. The author's mother wrote a book about facing her own prejudices. The author recounts his experiences with racism growing up in Toronto, Canada.
Helps explain the sentiment expressed by Jamaican immigrant Mr Met in his post below:
Hes not black he has yet to post proof .yeah word salad and still no proof of said lies &
1st : why would i be a member of a online chat where its members freely spew white supremacist adjacent rhetoric about black imigrants & africans all the way in Africa? in essence ur sayin i should just shut up about it & let yall poison bgol with it and neither am i a member of any online chat that spews hatred at any group of black ppl, its clear u are fine with members of this online chat spewing literal white supremacist rhetoric verbatim that actual white supremacist spew at black ppl & u wanna cover it with bs "group advocacy crap"
bcos if ua a true blackman it also should concern u,
the hatred & white supremacist vitriol ppl who identify as fba ados spew .. but ure obviously fine with it.. but im not ..
so...dont like me posting fba ados then dont come into my threads to cry bcos i will never stop!!
& why should i be upset if wiggers are bashed or whatever "culture vultures".. im not a white person! & how are wiggers?culture vulture synonymous with africans in africa & black immigrants ? & why shouldnt i as a blackman defend against lies & xenophobic rhetoric thats verbatim white supremacist rhetoric spewed at africans & black imigrants ,& now ure using the same words,
why should that concern me a a blackman? .. are u even a blackman ?
lastly fba ados dont speak for nor represent black america/african americans
This played out regurgitated forced narrative is years old & stale, get new material from Yvette & tonetalk
Bigger yawn
Hes not black he has yet to post proof .
so again u post another except from a book..This shit is studied on a SCHOLARLY level........but since you can barely compose a coherent sentence, it's beyond your mental capacity:
Immigration and the Remaking of Black America
by
Tod G. Hamilton
Winner of the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography
Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association
“Using the best available data, state-of-the-art analytical strategies, and sophisticated theoretical framing, Immigration and the Remaking of Black America offers the definitive statement about the diverse experiences of black immigrants to the United States and how they compare to their native-born African American counterparts. Professor Hamilton has unquestionably raised the bar for future scholars who would seek to further advance our understanding of this important, but heretofore poorly understood, population.”
—STEWART E. TOLNAY, S. Frank Miyamoto Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Washington
“In the most comprehensive study to date of voluntary black immigration to the United States, Tod Hamilton conducts a tempered and temperate demolition on cherished conventional claims about race, national origin, immigration, and social outcomes. Hamilton’s systematic comparisons of the characteristics and experiences of recent black immigrants vis-à-vis their fellow nationals who remain in their home country, of internal black migrants to the north vis-à-vis those blacks who remained in the south, and of recent black immigrants vis-à-vis the native black American population writ large eradicate cultural-cum-behavioral explanations for ongoing racial inequality in the United States. Immigration and the Remaking of Black America is a masterful study.”
—WILLIAM A. DARITY JR., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor of Economics, Duke University
“Immigration and the Remaking of Black America teaches us what it means to be black in America today. Its author, Tod G. Hamilton, provides a timely and accessible theoretical and empirical demographic benchmark describing America’s newest black immigrants. More importantly, Hamilton sets today’s black immigrant experience in comparison with native-born black Americans, who still feel the ancestral sting of forced migration from a much earlier and shameful period in U.S. history. America’s burgeoning immigrant and refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa are too often overlooked but can tell us a great deal about contemporary race relations, race and class dynamics, and immigrant integration in a multiracial society. Immigration and the Remaking of Black America fills the current void.”
—DANIEL T. LICHTER, Ferris Family Professor, Cornell University
Over the last four decades, immigration from the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa to the U. S. has increased rapidly. In several states, African immigrants are now the primary drivers of growth in the black population. While social scientists and commentators have noted that these black immigrants’ social and economic outcomes often differ from those of their native-born counterparts, few studies have carefully analyzed the mechanisms that produce these disparities. In Immigration and the Remaking of Black America, sociologist Tod Hamilton shows how immigration is reshaping black America. He weaves together interdisciplinary scholarship with new data to enhance our understanding of the causes of socioeconomic stratification among both the native-born and newcomers.
Hamilton demonstrates that immigration from the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa is driven by selective migration, meaning that newcomers from these countries tend to have higher educational attainment and better health than those who stay behind. As a result, they arrive in the U.S. with some advantages over native-born blacks, and, in some cases, over whites. He also shows the importance of historical context: prior to the Civil Rights Movement, black immigrants’ socioeconomic outcomes resembled native-born blacks’ much more closely, regardless of their educational attainment in their country of origin. Today, however, certain groups of black immigrants have better outcomes than native-born black Americans—such as lower unemployment rates and higher rates of homeownership—in part because they immigrated at a time of expanding opportunities for minorities and women in general. Hamilton further finds that rates of marriage and labor force participation among native-born blacks that move away from their birth states resemble those of many black immigrants, suggesting that some disparities within the black population stem from processes associated with migration, rather than from
nativity alone.
Hamilton argues that failing to account for this diversity among the black population can lead to incorrect estimates of the social progress made by black Americans and the persistence of racism and discrimination. He calls for future research on racial inequality to disaggregate different black populations. By richly detailing the changing nature of black America, Immigration and the Remaking of Black America helps scholars and policymakers to better understand the complexity of racial disparities in the twenty-first century.
TOD G. HAMILTON is assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University.
so again u post another except from a book..
and I ask again ....
what are u saying.. say it !??!..
dont post excerpts from somebody's book..use ur own words .!!. what r u saying or trying to say ??,..
... if u cant answer this simple question then the convo is over
That's the girl that called Black men "bullet bags" in response to police brutality.
You guys never show audio or video clips of people outside promoting this "flat black" Caribbeans can be Black Americans too logic. That grift only works online.
Your boy is getting dragged tweeting a racist publication.
Your boy is getting dragged tweeting a racist publication.
Fuck that corny ass nigga.
Knew his bitches ass was MAGA. Pussy ass bitch
Nigga trying to justify police immunity. I can’t stand dumb motherfuckers like him
Wish one of the lil homies in SE should have lit his ass up when he was in DC.