Crossing Boundaries: African American Inner City and European Migrant Youth

ISBN-13: 9783825872311 / Angielski

Maria Diedrich; Theron D. Cook; Flip Lindo

Opis

In the inner city streets in the United States, one often notices groups of black youth wearing prison-style outfits, carrying boom boxes and listening to rap music. Inevitably one hears them use the N-word among themselves. Upon entering a migrant district in any European city, one encounters almost identical scenes. However, in European cities, most of migrant youth are of a "white" or olive complexion, who refer to themselves as "Wiggers," "white Niggers," or "Black albinos." The essays included in this volume are an outgrowth of a symposium on transcultural and national orientation called "Crossing Boundaries." The conference was inspired by the "Wigger" metaphor and was attended by African American researchers who have worked among inner city black youth, as well as European and Israeli migration scholars. Collectively they contribute to understanding how to address the myriad of challenges that youth from different cultures confront in the countries in which they live.