What happens when the syntax of race meets immigrants whose bodies are assumed to be "Black" in North America but who either do not have the history or the conception of Blackness in North America or are not familiar with the North American Black-White dichotomy? Dealing with three empirical studies and a novel, in the present review essay, I answer this complex question by entering a rhizome and a cartography (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987) where race is a complicated, nuanced and ever-shifting/ed category; an identity politics without guarantees; whose outcome is so contingent and tentative that it is unpredictable (Hall, 1992). I will conclude with a sketch of a critical pedagogy that attempts to decolonize the unidimensional nature of Blackness as currently existing in North America.