Black Immigrants, Perceptions of Difference, and the Abiding Sting of Blackness

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Research Article| October 01 2016 Black Immigrants, Perceptions of Difference, and the Abiding Sting of Blackness Milton Vickerman Milton Vickerman Milton Vickerman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race (Oxford University Press, 1999), The Problem of Post-Racialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-editor, with Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl, of “Race and Ethnic Relations: Continuity and Change” (Cognella, forthcoming). He was also co-researcher on a large-scale project that investigated one of the earliest efforts by a local government to pass anti-Latino immigration legislation. This research is summarized in Evaluation Study of Prince William County’s Illegal Immigration Enforcement Policy: Final Report 2010 (Prince William County Police Department and the University of Virginia Center for Survey Research, 2010), which he co-authored with Thomas M. Guterbock, Christopher S. Koper, Bruce Taylor, Karen E. Walker, and Timothy Carter. In other ongoing research on Latinos, Vickerman is investigating employer-Latino relations in new gateways. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 36 (1): 71–81. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.36.1.0071 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Milton Vickerman; Black Immigrants, Perceptions of Difference, and the Abiding Sting of Blackness. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2016; 36 (1): 71–81. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.36.1.0071 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2016 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: African and Afro-Caribbean Migration: A Forum on Violet Showers Johnson’s “When Blackness Stings: African and Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, Race, and Racism in Late Twentieth-Century America” You do not currently have access to this content.