num_pages: 157
description: About the Author Magdalene Robinson is a registered nurse, poet and writer. Her columns and articles have appeared in the Western Mirror, Jamaica Daily News and Sunday Sun, New York West Indian Magazine, and more recently, Nursing Spectrum. As a nurse, she develops and instructs programs to help other nurses improve their practice. When she was nineteen years old, the author moved to New York without her family. Magdalene says, Your Mama In America is not her autobiography, although it reflects insights gained into this subject based on her lived experiences. The voices here, are those of many Caribbean immigrants who shared their stories. These are the voices of immigrant women, their children and men folk left behind. In Your Mama In America, the author explores the life of the Caribbean woman in America and that of her husband and children, left behind. What does it feel like to be a woman in a strange country without family or personal nurturing? How does a mother nurture other women’s children while her own cry for her love and wonder if she will ever return home to them? Hear the cries of the woman alone in America and the longing of the children left behind. Feel the anguish of the male, newly arrived in America, as he struggles to find gainful employment and preserve his dignity. Celebrate the joy of a woman giving thanks to “Sweet Papa Jesus!” for her family finally here in America. See a mother hope for herself and her family In Mama In America, the author provides a close-up look at women who touch the lives of so many people in America and in the Caribbean, everyday. Magdalene Robinson gives voice to a largely voiceless population. But the author neither glorifies nor blames the Caribbean immigrant woman, here. This incisive account of a life, poorly understood by many, strips away the myths and lays bare some truths about the impact of the Caribbean woman's migration on family - the price of a dream.
language: English
title: Your Mama in America : A Song of Caribbean Immigrant People
titlecomplete: Your Mama in America : A Song of Caribbean Immigrant People
publisher: Xlibris Corp