Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream

by Tiffanie Drayton  Named "most anticipated" book of February by Marie Claire, Essence, and A.V. Club "A welcome addition to the literature on race in America…. Drayton has a powerful story and the voice to do it justice."—Kirkus Reviews After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people.In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American Dream. At first, life in the US was idyllic. But chasing good school districts with affordable housing left Tiffanie and her family constantly uprooted--moving from Texas to Florida then back to New Jersey. As Tiffanie came of age in the suburbs, she began to ask questions about the binary Black and white