essay
Transnationalism in the construct of Haitian migrants' racial categories of identity in New York City
Towards a transnational perspective on migration • New York, New York • Published In 1992 • Pages: 101-123
By: Charles, Carolle.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work '…argues that the multiple racial identities which Haitian migrants to New York City display in their organizations and in their public discourse is not expression of an ambiguity and/or denial of a racial consciousness and of racial identity. It is rather an expression of the different meanings of blackness that inform the consciousness and identity of Haitian immigrants' (p. 102). The author describes in this paper how these different meaning of Blackness, rooted as they are in Haiti, become embedded in a transnational network of social relations involving household, related kin, and friends. In the process of migration the meanings of these categories of social relations are transformed in building new identities with a tendency toward disaffiliation with Black Americans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Cultural identity and pride
- Labor supply and employment
- Ethnic stratification
- Household
- Political behavior
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haitian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca.1960s-1980s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca.1960s-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carolle Charles
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-123)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92010551
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haitian Americans