Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death bringing smiles to our faces

bringing smiles to our faces that we should never

The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime trade—the real-life background to the Sindbad tales

thought-provoking and challenging at times

rat poison and other chemical components that almost immediately sucks its users into a vortex of addiction and the crime

but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth

Constructing Black Selves POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death bringing smiles to our facesIn 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