Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America

by Emad Mirmotahari

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Pub Date Nov 24 2026 | Archive Date Not set

University of Iowa Press | University Of Iowa Press

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Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America addresses how minoritized communities in the United States find each other, make sense of each other, and come together to confront racism and racist practices in all its guises. This book probes the life and writings of Korean immigrants, Indian immigrants, and various African immigrants for insights into the ways that they experience and express their new lives in the United States. More specifically, this book shows how immigrant communities come to understand their relationship with the Black American community, the relation that is key to finding their own voice about race, culture, and power in the United States.

Advance Praise

“Emad Mirmotahari provides subtle analyses of contemporary immigrant autobiography, including through his own powerful autotheoretical voice, assembling a timely and essential argument regarding the enmeshment of racialized immigrant strivings and Black life. Mirmotahari furnishes splendid close readings toward both insurgent multiethnic literary study and a potential renewal of people-of-color consciousness and coalitional imagination.”—Seulghee Lee, author, Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life

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EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9781685970994
PRICE	$95.00 (USD)
PAGES	230

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