Workbook
Black and Immigrant
Navigating American Racism When You Did Not Grow Up Inside It
This workbook builds a navigation of American Blackness that holds the immigrant identity and the racial reality together.
For the Black immigrant — African, Caribbean, Afro-Latino — navigating American racial categories that were not built for them. For the person whose Blackness in their country of origin was not the primary social category defining their life, who arrives in the US and discovers they have been assigned a race, a history, and a set of assumptions that do not fit their experience but that will govern how they move through American institutions.
The Name It First Experience
You arrived and were assigned a race — one with a history you did not live, a set of assumptions you did not build, and a struggle that will now govern how you move through every American institution. Black and Immigrant maps the specific terrain of navigating American racial categories as a Black person who grew up Black somewhere else — African, Caribbean, Afro-Latino — where Blackness was not your primary social category and American race logic does not map cleanly onto the identity you brought with you. This workbook is for the Black immigrant who is ready to name both what they brought and what America assigned — without being required to choose which one is real. Navigating American Racism When You Did Not Grow Up Inside It builds the documented navigation for both.
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Sample questions
- What does being Black mean in this country — and how is that different from what it meant in your country of origin?
- What have American racial categories gotten wrong about your experience of your own identity?
- What do you want people to understand about your identity that the category "Black" does not capture?
Research basis
Cross racial identity / immigrant Black American studies / Berry acculturation / critical race theory / diaspora studies / intersectionality
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