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"All The Trappings Of Racism Are Here, And I Live In Them": Resistance, Counterspace, And Identity Socialization As Afro-Caribbean Women Raise Second Generation Immigrant Sons And Grandsons In A Racialized U.S. Southeastern State, Michelle D. Grace-Williams Jun 2016

"All The Trappings Of Racism Are Here, And I Live In Them": Resistance, Counterspace, And Identity Socialization As Afro-Caribbean Women Raise Second Generation Immigrant Sons And Grandsons In A Racialized U.S. Southeastern State, Michelle D. Grace-Williams

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This nine-month narrative inquiry explored the experiences of four Jamaican immigrant women (two mothers and two grandmothers) living in a southeastern U.S. state to gain insights about how they ethnic-racially socialize their second generation immigrant sons or grandsons in this racialized context. Research questions guiding the study were: (a) How do the women perceive racism in the U.S.? How do they choose to self-identify? What connection, if at all, exists between their perceptions of racism and how they choose to raise their children or grandchildren? (b) What ethnic-racial messages do they transmit to them and what purposes do they serve? …