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Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities

Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities.

By Mary C. Waters. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 413

Black Identities by Mary Waters is easily the most comprehensive and current examination of West Indian migrants to America in existence at present. In the migration and sociological literatures, the West Indian experience has been the source of great controversy, particularly around measures of social success that compare them to AfroAmericans. For example, the works of Thomas Sowell (Race and Economics, 1975) are well known for the ways in which the perceived greater success of West Indians are linked to values that African Americans supposedly ...

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