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Look around you. Look closely, and you will see boxes crumbling. What, for example, is the black community in Minnesota, and who represents it? At the time of writing, there was an NPR story in which a community leader said blacks in New York don’t trust the census bureau because of how such data was used during segregation. True, but with 30% of blacks in New York being immigrant, many of them are probably more worried that the census officers have friends in the immigration agencies. Is a white Mozambican immigrant “African-American?” When President Obama visited the slave castles in Ghana, was he really retracing the steps of his ancestors?
There are many more such stories if you look closely. You’ll find them in your communities. You’ll find them in the local papers as well as national publications. Please share with us these news stories related to this phenomenon of black immigration and how it is transforming the “African-American” narrative.
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TITLE:Caribbean Immigration – IDEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC MOTIVATIONS FOR, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, RELATIONS WITH AFRICAN AMERICANS
LINK: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6039/Caribbean-Immigration.html
TITLE: IMMIGRATION INTERVIEWS
LINK: http://memory.loc.gov/learn//features/immig/interv/toc.php
TITLE: A call to set up an African Immigrant Bank
LINK: http://www.africagoodnews.com/trade-and-investment/a-call-to-set-up-an-african-immigrant-bank.html
TITLE:African American or Black American – Which Term is Accurate?
LINK: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/24405/african_american_or_black_american.html?cat=9
TITLE: The Changing Definition of African-American
How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American
LINK: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Changing-Definition-of-African-American.html#ixzz0gXXTT18m
TITLE: Genealogy for a Nation of Immigrants
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/arts/television/10faces.html
TITLE: CHILLY COEXISTENCE – AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE BRONX
LINK: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/gissler/anthology/Chill-Johnson.html
TITLE: EVELYN HSIEH: FOLLOWING OBAMA, STUDENTS DEFINE “BLACK” ON IVY LEAGUE CAMPUSES
LINK: http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=88053204021&h=uT9Ul&u=kLDNa
TITLE: NATURALLY LESLIE: BLACK-LATINO IDENTITY
LINK: http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=88053204021&h=uT9Ul&u=kLDNa
TITLE: AMERICANS SEEK THEIR AFRICAN ROOTS
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8117258.stm
TITLE: FROM THE MIDWEST TO MOGADISHU
LINK:http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/ways-to-detect-jihadist-threats/
TITLE: CONTINENTAL DIVIDE SEPARATE AFRICANS, AFRICAN-AMERICANS
LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/africans.in.america/index.html
TITLE: AFRICAN AMERICAN BECOMES A TERM FOR DEBATE
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/us/african-american-becomes-a-term-for-debate.html
TITLE: INTERVIEWS WITH TODAY’S IMMIGRANTS
LINK: http://memory.loc.gov/learn//features/immig/interv/toc.php
TITLE: CARIBBEAN IMMIGRATION – Ideological and economic motivations for Caribbean immigration
LINK: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6039/Caribbean-Immigration.html
TITLE: Refugee Program Halted As DNA Tests Show Fraud
LINK: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121919647430755373.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
TITLE: Congresswoman introduces bill proposing for Caribbean black people to elect to be called Caribbean American instead of black in next census.
TITLE: CNN iReport on African perspectives on Black America
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=92296066652&h=qEGzs&u=mUuj1
TITLE: In Middle-Class Queens, Blacks Pass Whites in Household Income.
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/06/nyregion/in-middle-class-queens-blacks-pass-whites-in-household-income.html?scp=6&sq=new+york+black+immigration+income&st=nyt
TITLE: At the most selective universities, immigrants comprise a disproportionate number of black students.
LINK: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uocp-atm012907.php
TITLE: Africans in the diaspora: black-white earnings differences among America’s Africans.
Study shows differences in earnings between black and white Africans in America and find sizeable differences among immigrants who have relatively similar human capital profiles. Whites have annual earnings 80 per cent higher than their black counterparts, and the gap in hourly wage is almost 48 per cent.
LINK: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rers/2002/00000025/00000006/art00002
TITLE: The End of the Black American Narrative (American Scholar)
A Pulitzer-winning writer argues why a new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences.
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-end-of-the-black-american-narrative/
TITLE: Black in a New Light
Barack Obama’s rise is driving a sometimes uncomfortable debate in the black community: What does it mean to be black in America?
LINK: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121945267454865513.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
TITLE A Better Life Beckons in Africa
U.S. Downturn Drives Immigrant Professionals Back Home
EXTRACT
While that may seem counterintuitive to Americans accustomed to bleaker images of Africa, recent studies have documented the flight of immigrant professionals from the United States to their home countries. Chinese and Indian workers increasingly say they see better opportunities and lifestyles at home. And diaspora associations of Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans and other Africans say their members — mostly from middle-class backgrounds — are joining the exodus, choosing life in the land of slow Internet connections and power outages over the pressures of recession-era America.
LINK http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502313.html?nav=E8
TITLE ‘White African-American’ suing N.J. Med school for discrimination
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Paulo Serodio says he is born and raised in Mozambique and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, Serodio, 45, has filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey medical school, claiming he was harassed and ultimately suspended for identifying himself during a class cultural exercise as a “white African-American.”
LINK http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=7567291&page=1
TITLE The Refugees Who Saved Lewiston
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The once bustling mill town’s population had been shrinking since the 1970s; most jobs had vanished long before, and residents (those who hadn’t already fled) called the decaying center of town “the combat zone.” That was before a family of Somali refugees discovered Lewiston in 2001 and began spreading the word to immigrant friends and relatives that housing was cheap and it looked like a good place to build new lives and raise children in peace. Since then, the place has been transformed. Per capita income has soared, and crime rates have dropped.
LINK http://www.newsweek.com/id/180035
TITLE Some See Black, African-Immigrant Relations at a Low
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Ed Gordon takes a closer look at the historical and economic factors that some see resulting in tensions between African immigrants and African-Americans.
LINK http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5600767
TITLE Black (Immigrant) Admissions Edge
EXTRACT
Within higher education, one of the more sensitive issues in discussion of admissions and affirmative action in recent years has been the relative success of immigrant black Americans compared to black people who have been in the United States for generations.
LINK http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/17/immigrant