This is an early version of a paper to appear as a chapter in Through Different Eyes, Peter Rose, William J. Wilson, and Stanley Luckmann, editor, with the title “The Black Immigrants and American Race Relations: Some Preliminary Considerations”. An adoption entitled “The Black Immigrant to the United States in Profile and Perspective” was read at a Conference at the State University of New York at Binghamton, octet 19, 1971, on Linkages in the Black Pluriverse: Africa, Afro-America, the Caribbean, and at Howard University.