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- ISBN 9780897894517
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 1996
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Written by a member of the Black Haitian community, this book brings to life the mechanisms that shape Haitian immigrant identity and underscores the complexity of such an identity. Zéphir explains why Haitians define themselves as a distinct ethnic group and examines the various parameters of Haitian ethnicity. Through hundreds of interviews, the author gathered the voices of Haitians as they speak, as they feel, and most importantly, how they experience America and its system of racial classification. This work is a description of the diversity of the Black population in America and an effort to dispel the myth of a monolithic minority or sidestream culture.
FLORE ZÉPHIR is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Missouri where she coordinates the foreign language education program. She has contributed an article on the Haitian middle class to the journal Research in Race and Ethnic Relations and has published chapters in books on multiculturalism and foreign language teaching. She has received recognition as an outstanding teacher.
