Race Gender and Citizenship in the African Diaspora

<p><strong>Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award</strong></p><p>With the exception of slave narratives there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences diverse black experiences and the intersection of black and immigrant identities. Citizenship as it is commonly understood today in the public sphere is a legal issue yet scholars have done much to move beyond this popular view and situate citizenship in the context of economic social and political positioning. The book shows that citizenship in all of its forms is often rhetorically representationally and legally negated by blackness and considers the ways that blackness and representations of blackness impact one’s ability to travel across national and social borders and become a citizen. This book is a story of citizenship and the ways that race gender and class shape national belonging with Haiti Cuba and the United States as the primary sites of examination.</p>