Immigration produced black Americans detached from the slavery and Jim Crow legacy

Evidence

The 1965 Hart-Cellar Immigration Act, which eliminated country-specific quotas on immigration, resulted in an influx of people from the Anglophone Caribbean. Between 1960 and 1984, more than 600,000 immigrants from places like Jamaica and Trinidad made their way to the United States. They were joined by more than 140,000 Haitian immigrants. Between 2000 and 2010 the African foreign-born population nearly doubled in size, to 1.6 million people. These are people with no personal connection to the legacy of slavery or Jim Crow segregation in the South. Their identities are not bound up with the history of race in this country, yet they were and are considered black. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 335

Categorization

• CANDY: The 600,000-plus Caribbean and 1.6 million African arrivals, none bearing the slavery/Jim Crow history, is a compact conversation fact about black diversity.