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Nicole Aljoe
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
617.373.4543
Expertise
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black Atlantic Literature, eighteenth-century British Novel, Postcolonial Studies, the Slave Narrative

Nicole Aljoe in the Press

Nicole Aljoe for Northeastern Global News

A person wearing a multi-colored shirt speaks to an audience at the annual bell hooks symposium.

Third annual bell hooks symposium, ‘Black Feminist Worldmaking,’ helps kick off Black History Month at Northeastern

Friday’s symposium provided an opportunity for organizers, speakers and guests to spend a day finding hope and imagining a different world.

The hard story of Caribbean immigrants and the American Dream

Caught between their parents’ traditions and the pressure to assimilate to a new culture, second-generation immigrants face specific challenges. These challenges are made more complex for the children of Caribbean immigrants in the United States, according to a group of scholars who discussed the topic last week at Northeastern.