Black Immigration and Ethnic Respectability

2018 ◽  
pp. 49-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory Charles Gooding
Keyword(s):  
Black Immigration

“A Cross-Fire between Minorities”

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-701
Author(s):  
Jane Hong
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Asian American ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Caribbean Community ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
Black Immigration

This article examines the Japanese American Citizens League’s (JACL) postwar campaign to secure U.S. citizenship eligibility for first-generation Japanese (Issei) as a civil rights effort that brought Japanese Americans into contention with African American and Afro-Caribbean community leaders during the height of the U.S. Cold War in East Asia. At the same time, JACL’s disagreements with Chinese Americans and Japanese American liberals precluded any coherent Japanese or Asian American position on postwar immigration policy. The resulting 1952 McCarran-Walter Act formally ended Asians’ exclusion from U.S. immigration and naturalization, even as a colonial quota in the law severely restricted black immigration from the Caribbean and galvanized black protest. This episode of black-Japanese tension complicates scholarly understandings of the liberalization of U.S. immigration and naturalization laws toward Asian peoples as analogous with or complementary to black civil rights gains in the postwar years. In so doing, it suggests the need to think more critically and historically about the cleavages between immigration and civil rights law, and between immigrant rights and civil rights.

scholarly journals Racial Context, Black Immigration and the U.S. Black/White Health Disparity

Social Forces ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Read ◽  
M. O. Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparity ◽  
Racial Context ◽  
Black Immigration ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals «Black» immigration in Spain

2015 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
E. S. Korzhukova
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
The State ◽  
International Scope ◽  
Subsaharan Africa ◽  
Internal Problem ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Black Immigration

The article deals with the problem of illegal immigration to Spain mainly from subSaharan Africa. It provides an overall perspective of the phenomenon in terms of its origin, development, stimulating factors. «Black» immigration is seen as an internal problem of the state and the phenomenon of international scope. Representatives of different political forces and social movements consider the problem in ambiguous way and there are different ways to solve it, but the question remains open.

The Making of a Liverpool Community: An Elusive Narrative

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Raymond Costello
Keyword(s):  
Black Community ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Free Black ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Freed Slaves ◽  
Continuous Presence ◽  
Black Immigration

Tracing the black presence in Liverpool, the oldest black community in Europe, is the subject of this chapter by Ray Costello. He begins by recounting and dispelling the ‘Windrush myth’—a misconception that the arrival of nearly 500 Jamaican workers on the SS Empire Windrush in 1948 was the beginning of the history of black settlers in Britain. Instead, black communities had existed in Britain for at least five centuries with Liverpool having the most continuous presence including enslaved black servants, freed slaves, sailors, children of African royalty attending school, and free Black Loyalists from the Americas. Costello describes the diverse backgrounds, cultures and languages of black settlers in Liverpool following each of Britain’s wars which obscured the true age of the community and perpetuated a view of local blacks as exotic foreigners. The failure to recognize the age and Britishness of an established black Liverpudlian population, Costello fears, preserves a belief in the recency of black immigration promotes the idea that assimilation and acculturation are the keys to integration and racial equity.

scholarly journals Peculiar Quarantines: The Seamen Acts and Regulatory Authority in the Antebellum South

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schoeppner
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Free People Of Color ◽  
State Statutes ◽  
Black Immigration ◽  
Free People

In 1824, the American schoonerFoxsailed into Charleston harbor with seasoned mariner and Rhode Island native Amos Daley on board. When officials boarded the ship, they interrogated the captain and crew before cuffing Daley and hauling him off to the Charleston jail, where he remained until theFoxwas set to leave harbor. Daley's detainment occurred because 16 months earlier the South Carolina General Assembly had enacted a statute barring the entrance of all free people of color into the state. Unlike other antebellum state statutes limiting black immigration, this law extended further, stretching to include in its prohibition maritime laborers aboard temporarily docked, commercial vessels. This particular section of the law was passed on the assumption that such sailors inspired slave insurrection and thereby posed a direct threat to the safety and welfare of the citizenry. Over the course of the next four decades, the states of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas would join South Carolina in passing statutes, commonly referred to as the “Seamen Acts,” which limited the ingress of free black mariners. Amos Daley was only one of ~10,000 sailors directly affected by these particularly Southern regulations.

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