American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9780190053550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Niambi Michele Carter

Recenzje

Too many studies on Americans' attitudes about immigration focus solely on the responses of whites while ignoring the reactions of nonwhites. Carter's lens-shifting book moves African Americans from the margins to the center of longstanding immigration debates in the U.S. Reminding us that African Americans often have been reduced to the status of virtual strangers and second-class citizens in their own land, Carter explores how the group has reacted to the arrival of new immigrants over time and across the country. The book documents a great deal of incertitude and ambivalence in African Americans' attitudes toward immigration. Yet Carter perceptively points to one certainty in their views: African Americans believe that immigration, like so many other issues, is entangled with this country's race problem. It is this most familiar and uncomfortable truth about American democracy that Carter unflinchingly confronts in this powerful book.

O autorze

Niambi Michele Carter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University. Her work focuses on racial and ethnic politics in the United States, specifically public opinion and political behavior of African Americans.