Identity and Transnationalism: The New African Diaspora Second Generation in the United States

ISBN-13: 9780367368548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 154 str.

Kassahun H. Kebede

Opis

Identity and Transnationalism discusses the identity and transnational experiences of the new second-generation African immigrants in the US, bringing together the lived experiences of the new African diaspora and exploring how they are shaping and reshaping being and becoming black.

Spis treści

1. The African second generation in the United States – identity and transnationalism: an introduction. Kassahun Kebede 2. Convergent identifications, divergent meanings: the racial and ethnic identities of second-generation West African youth. Dialika Sall 3. Gauging panethnicity: affirmative action, African Americans, and children of black immigrants. Onoso Imoagene 4. Second-generation African college students and the American ethnoracial pentagon: self-identification, racial labeling and the contouring of group boundaries. Clémentine Berthelemy 5. It is tough to be a Liberian refugee in Staten Island, NY: the importance of context for second generation African immigrant youth Bernadette Ludwig 6. Transnational identity formation of second-generation Cameroonian youth in the United States: a perspective of a Cameroonian parent-educator. Michael Takafor Ndemanu 7. Fitting In and standing out: identity and transnationalism among second-generation African immigrants in the United States Elizabeth Chacko 8. ‘Ethiopia is misunderstood’: transnationalism among second-generation Ethiopian Americans Kassahun Kebede

O autorze

Kassahun Kebede is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Washington University, USA. He has extensive research in international migration issues. His previous publication examined post-resettlement recovery experiences of communities displaced by a large hydroelectric dam in Southwestern Ethiopia.