Publisher's Synopsis
This book focuses on the immigrant experiences of Caribbean academics living and working in the United States. Unlike standard texts that present theoretical debates on issues related to postcolonialism, each essay in this work speaks in a personal, passionate, and uncensored way about what it means to live as a Caribbean immigrant in the U.S.A. The experiences here recorded will be familiar to millions of postcolonial peoples who inhabit the First World.
As the contributors make clear, the struggles that minority scholars face are daunting. They criticize a theoretical and pedagogical hegemony firmly entrenched in academia, which is inherently hostile to new and different ways of understanding and experiencing the world. They point out their frustrations with having to work with theories and methods that are alien to their experiences and can never make sense of their complex realities. By resisting methods that tend to straightjacket thought and stereotype identities, the authors show how all immigrants can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the complexity and diversity of our increasingly multicultural society.
This unique work will be of great interest to scholars exploring issues of identity, nationality, culture, and power in an era of globalization and postcolonial cultures.
