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Author Clerge, Orly, author.

Title The new noir : race, identity, and diaspora in black suburbia / by Orly Clergé.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Village market : encounters in black diasporic suburbs -- Children of the Yam : enslaved African to middle class black in the U.S., Haiti and Jamaica -- Blood pudding : forbidden neighbors on Jim Crow Long Island -- Callaloo : cultural economies of our backyards -- Fish soup : class journey across time and space -- Vanilla black : the spectrum of racial consciousness -- Green juice fast : skinfolk distinction making -- Conclusion : mustard seeds : grow where you are planted
Summary "The expansion of the black middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of immigrants among them since the 1960s has transformed the black c̤ṳltural geography of New York. In The New Noir, urban sociologist Orly Clerge uncovers the complex social worlds of an extraordinary generation of black middle class adults from different corners of the African Diaspora. Clerge demonstrates that the black middle class' ongoing ties with the American and Global South has influenced the local businesses, organizations, and kitchen tables of their suburbs. With particular attention to the largest black ethnic groups in the U.S.--Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians--Clerge takes us on a journey into the hidden places on Queens and Long Island and reveals the ways in which region and nationality shape how the black middle class negotiates diasporic encounters, the politics of blackness, and class mobility. In their social interactions with one another and in everyday life, they stir up local social hierarchies and cultivate a spectrum of black identities, which help them cultivate belonging in a changing 21st global city. As the first ethnographic work on the multiethnic black middle class, The New Noir is a groundbreaking exploration of race, place, and immigrant experience today"--Provided by publisher
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Language In English.
Subject Middle class African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Middle class African Americans -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Social conditions.
African diaspora -- Social conditions.
Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations.
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
New York (State) -- Long Island. (OCoLC)fst01241714
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
New York (State) -- New York -- Queens. (OCoLC)fst01313007
Other Form: Print version: Clerge, Orly. New noir. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520296763 (DLC) 2019014745 (OCoLC)1098217570
ISBN 9780520969131 electronic book
0520969138 electronic book
9780520296763 hardcover
0520296761 hardcover
9780520296787 paperback
0520296788 paperback
Standard No. 40029538475
10.1525/9780520969131 doi
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