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Highlighting the significance of black philanthropy, Lorick-Wilmot points to the ways the MSGCIs link their philanthropy to the transnational connections they choose to maintain with their parents’ country of origin and beyond. Most notable themes explored focus on the importance of coalition building across African American, Afro-Latino, and Afro-Asian American ethnic communities. Woven throughout the chapter are the MSGCIs’ interpretations of success in America as a means of continuing the “good fight” against oppression and the important lessons they hope to impart on to their children. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the MSGCIs’ pessimism toward the state of United States race relations and the ways they feel the United States is still “unwilling” to fully contend with the legacies of systematized oppression that persist today.
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Introduced by social theorist Emile Durkheim (1893) in Division of Labour in Society, collective consciousness is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes, which operate as a unifying force within society.
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Lorick-Wilmot, Y.S. (2018). Transnational Community Ties, Black Philanthropy, and Triple Identity Consciousness . In: Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62208-8_8
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