The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia

Orly Clerge

Published by University of California Press 2019

The New Noir

Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia

Orly Clerge

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520969131

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About this book

The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York.

In The New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city.

Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge’s ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York’s middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class.

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Clerge Orly :

Orly Clerge is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor of Stories from the Front of the Room: How Higher Education Faculty Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface: Aperitif Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
1. Village Market: Encounters in Black Diasporic Suburbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Children of the Yam: From Enslaved African to the Black Middle Class in the United States, Haiti, and Jamaica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Blood Pudding: Forbidden Neighbors on Jim Crow Long Island Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4. Callaloo: Cultural Economies of our Backyards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5. Fish Soup: Class Journey across Time and Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
6. Vanilla Black: The Spectrum of Racial Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
7. Green Juice Fast: Skinfolk Distinction Making Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Conclusion: Mustard Seeds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Appendix: Digestif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 320

eBook

Published: October 29, 2019
ISBN: 9780520969131