“Becoming Black” is an oral history project which centers Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City, and the ways that these immigrants, now understood as Black immigrants, re/construct identity as Black and/or African American, through the meaning-making and double process of “coming simultaneously into ‘America’ and into ‘Black America’” (Kasinitz, 1992, 32). More specifically, through the … Continue reading BECOMING BLACK: AFRO-CARIBBEAN AND/IN ‘BLACK AMERICA.’ AN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT