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Author Drayton, Tiffanie, author.

Title Black American refugee : escaping the narcissism of the American dream / Tiffanie Drayton.

Publication Info. [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  305.896 DRAYTON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8969 DRAYTON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.896 DRA    Check Shelf
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Description 294 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue -- Love bombing -- Devalued -- Discarded -- Calm -- Moving the goalposts and gaslighting -- Healing -- Hoovered -- Lethal abuse -- The breakup -- Epilogue: Reconciliation.
Summary "After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American Dream. At first, life in the US was idyllic. But chasing good school districts with affordable housing left Tiffanie and her family constantly uprooted--moving from Texas to Florida then back to New Jersey. As Tiffanie came of age in the suburbs, she began to ask questions about the binary Black and white American world. Why were the Black neighborhoods she lived in crime-ridden, and the multicultural ones safe? Why were there so few Black students in advanced classes at school, if there were any advanced classes at all? Why was it so hard for Black families to achieve stability? Why were Black girls treated as something other than worthy? Ultimately, exhausted by the pursuit of a "better life" in America, twenty-year old Tiffanie returns to Tobago. She is suddenly able to enjoy the simple freedom of being Black without fear, and imagines a different future for her own children. But then COVID-19 and widely publicized instances of police brutality bring America front and center again. This time, as an outsider supported by a new community, Tiffanie grieves and rages for Black Americans in a way she couldn't when she was one. An expansion of her New York Times piece of the same name, Black American Refugee examines in depth the intersection of her personal experiences and the broader culture and historical ramifications of American racism and global white supremacy. Through thoughtful introspection and candidness, Tiffanie unravels the complex workings of the people in her life, including herself, centering Black womanhood, and illuminating the toll a lifetime of racism can take. Must Black people search beyond the shores of the "land of the free" to realize emancipation? Or will the voices that propel America's new reckoning welcome all dreamers and dreams to this land?"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294).
Subject Drayton, Tiffanie.
Trinidadian Americans -- New Jersey -- Biography.
Women immigrants -- New Jersey -- Biography.
African American women -- New Jersey -- Biography.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
Racism against Black people -- United States -- History -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
Abused wives -- New Jersey -- Biography.
Abused wives -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Biography.
Return migrants -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination.
Abused wives. (OCoLC)fst00794854
African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Racism against Black people. (OCoLC)fst02029244
Return migrants. (OCoLC)fst01748946
Trinidadian Americans. (OCoLC)fst01904983
Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
New Jersey. (OCoLC)fst01208379
Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. (OCoLC)fst01211576
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Autobiography (DNLM)D020493
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Drayton, Tiffanie. Black American refugee [New York] : Viking, [2022] 9780593298558 (DLC) 2021035787
ISBN 9780593298541 (hardcover)
0593298543 (hardcover)
9780593298558 electronic book
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