ISBN:
9781498581936
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (331 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896
Keywords:
Blacks-Race identity
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines the transcultural nature of Black and African identities, globally based on the shifting identities and experiences that have been precipitated by increased migration by Africans and African diasporans.
Abstract:
Cover -- Pan African Spaces -- Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Changing the Paradigms on Migration and Immigration in the African Diaspora -- Introduction -- The United States -- Beyond Berlin: The Meaning of Being Black and Bi-Cultural in the South African Outlier -- Black Migration to Europe -- Table of Contents Section/Breakdown -- Chapter 1 -- (Re)igniting Pan-Africanism. (Re)jecting Afropolitanism. (Re)naming Our solution. -- The Complexity of Identity -- Afropolitanism-The Sibling to Negritude -- Pan Africanization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Is Race Really the Issue? -- Racism: A Black Immigrant's Experience -- Individualized Racial Experience -- The Education Gap -- Generational Disparities -- Disparities among Black Immigrants -- Affirmative Action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Perspectives on Black Transnationalism and Identity Formation -- Chapter 3 -- The Evolution of a Bicultural Identity in the Shadows of Nyerere's Pan Africanism -- Chapter 4 -- Skins, Identities, and Their Tragedies -- I Could Not Tell Who I Am. Sometimes, I Was Called "Negrita" -- Soy Española -- Am I Spanish? Negra? -- The African Diaspora -- The World -- Healing -- Afrodescendiente, Hispano-Guineana -- Now and the Future -- Chapter 5 -- When I First Wore Fish Leather or Black Girl in Iceland -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Reinventing Identities -- II -- Poem 1 -- Death upon the Homefront -- Crioulo Culture and Pidgin Music: American Experiences and West African Identities -- Chapter 7 -- Navigating Between Two Worlds -- Cabo-What? Knowing the Past in Order to Understand the Present -- Welcome to the United States: Sky Scrapers, New Opportunities and Changing Family Dynamics -- One School, Two Learning Systems: Was This Racist? -- Meeting Mrs. Anderson and Getting to Lincoln.
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