Black History Month: Resources

Books

Christina M. Greer, "Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream"

Cindy Hahamovitch, "No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor"

Tod G. Hamilton, "Immigration and the Remaking of Black America"

Violet Showers Johnson, "African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America"

Carl Lindskoog, "Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System"

Articles

Julia Gaffield, "Haiti was the first country to permanently ban slavery"

Carly Goodman, "We’ve erased Black immigrants from our story, obscuring a racist system" 

Jack Herrera, "Black immigrants matter" 

Ibrahim Hirsi, "America’s Long History of Mistreating Haitian Migrants"

Carl Lindskoog, "Violence and racism against Haitian migrants was never limited to agents on horseback"

Christine Tamir, "Key findings about Black immigrants in the U.S."

More reading

New York Public Library, "Celebrating Black Writers for Immigrant Heritage Month"