Zephir is a Haitian-American scholar who teaches in primarily black-and-white American environments. She analyzes the special status of Haitian Americans. They are triply invisible: they're black, they're black foreigners, and they're black non-Anglophone foreigners. So much literature says that immigrants will simply blend into the melting pot, but clearly that is being proven by new scholarship as not true for immigrants of color in very race-conscious America. Thus, Haitians do not have the choice to simply become Americans; that would only leave them with the less-desireable choice of being black Americans. It is through this lense that she interviews several Haitian informants living in New York City. She contextualizes the discussion by talking about the race and class divisions in pre-independence Haiti (then called Saint-Domingue). I found this very informative. Next she states that the Haitian constitution deemed all its citizens black and therefore blackness is associated with independence and pride on the island, unlike its stigmatized minority status in this country. These multifaceted conditions are what lead various Haitians to either reject or accept unity with black Americans, especially along class lines. Next, Zephir discusses the trichotomous issues that arise when Haitians choose to speak Creole, French, or English. Zephir is a rigorous academic, yet a comprehensible writer. Her discussion about language may bore ethnic studies majors and her discussion about multiculturalism may upset typical cognitive science majors. Zephir ends with a discussion with Haitian children in the American school system which I found capricious. This book has a boring cover and is printed in this miniscule font: unfortunate signs that Zephir intended this as a book only for university libraries. Still, for those students and professors that find a copy, they will truly enjoy her insights. Zephir is fair in her discussion of Haitians versus black Americans. Too many people assume that blacks in this country only come from the American South and have no relation to immigration matters. This book proves that wrong in a diverse and compelling manner.