Title Strategies for success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans : overachieve, be cheerful, or confront / Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski.

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Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Description	1 online resource (xxxv, 188 pages).
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Series	Critical Africana studies : African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies
	Critical Africana studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: While both are successful, how can they be so different? -- The constraints and opportunities of vastly different Black histories -- The diverse identities of Black Americans and Caribbeans -- Crafting basic strategies for success -- Using more complex strategies for success at work and in the public -- Viewing the other : defending strategies of success among fellow Blacks -- Conclusion and advice to the ambitious -- Appendix A: Methodologies and participation in the study -- Appendix B: Semi-structured questionnaire.
Summary	This book explores how African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies can be so different in their approaches toward social mobility.
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Subject	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions.
	Black people.
	Social conditions.
	Social mobility -- United States.
	Social mobility.
	United States.
	Social mobility -- West Indies, British.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	Black people -- Race identity -- West Indies, British.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	Black people -- Race identity.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	Black people -- Social conditions.
	West Indies -- British West Indies.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Janoski, Thomas, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Grey, Chrystal Y. Strategies for success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017 9781498554497 (DLC) 2017044063
ISBN	9781498554503 (electronic book)
	1498554504 (electronic book)
	9781498554497 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Title Strategies for success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans : overachieve, be cheerful, or confront / Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski.

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