Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death liberals value legal rights for

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

bringing smiles to our faces that we should never

thought-provoking and challenging at times

In both the colonial past and the postcolonial present

Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death liberals value legal rights forIn 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