Un-Othering the Black Experience: Storytelling and Sociology

Abstract

Lorick-Wilmot contextualizes her ethnographic research on middle class second generation, self-identified black Caribbean immigrants (MSGCIs) within the current field of sociology of race, identity and American immigration. To that end, she provides an overview of theories and introduces a new, alternative framework called ``Triple Identity Consciousness'' to identify and understand the complex and nuanced phenomena of MSGCI identity and identity performances. The chapter also provides an important discussion on the research's ethnographic methodology, including participants' demographic information, and why studying the experiences of the MSGCI in the United States is relevant today.