Date of Award

1-1-2013

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies

Program

Spanish

Content Description

1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Colbert I Nepaulsingh

Committee Members

Patricia S Pinho, Glyne Griffith

Keywords

Bahamas, Blackness, Caribbean, Haiti, Haitian Migrants, Identity, Black people, Ethnicity, Haitians, Mass media and race relations, Mass media and immigrants

Subject Categories

Caribbean Languages and Societies | Latin American Studies

Abstract

"Blackness of a Different Color: The Complexities of Identity of Haitian Migrants and their Descendants in the Bahamas" is the first book-length study of its kind, and the first since 1978 to examine the Haitian experience in the Bahamas. It establishes that the Haitian diaspora is as worthy a topic of academic attention as other diasporas, not just as an appendage of the African diaspora. It examines how Haitians experience a complex, but by no means unique, form of black on black racism in which Bahamians have

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