Percy Hintzen: 2 books
West Indian in the West
Self Representations in a Migrant Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
As new immigrant communities continue to flourish in U.S. cities, their members continually face challenges of assimilation in the organization of their ethnic identities. West Indians provide a vibrant example.
In West Indian in the West, Percy Hintzen draws on extensive ethnographic work with the...
Problematizing Blackness
Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.