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African Diaspora Identities
Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration
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2010
Summary
African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships. John A. Arthur demonstrates that the identities African immigrants construct often transcends country-specific cultures and normative belief systems. He illuminates the fact that these transnational migrant identities are an amalgamation of multiple identities formed in varied social transnational settings. The United States has become a site for the cultural formations, manifestations, and contestations of the newer identities that these immigrants seek to depict in cross-cultural and global settings. Relying mostly on their strong human capital resources (education and family), Africans are devising creative, encompassing, and robust ways to position and reposition their new identities. In combining their African cultural forms and identities with new roles, norms, and beliefs that they imbibe in the United States and everywhere else they have settled, Africans are redefining what it means to be black in a race-, ethnicity-, and color-conscious American society.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4638-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4639-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
302
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Chapter 1. Constructing African Immigrant Identities in Transnational Domains No access Pages 1 - 34
Chapter 2. Situating Africa’s Brain Drain in Global Migrations No access Pages 35 - 78
Chapter 3. Transnational African Immigrant Lives and Identities No access Pages 79 - 118
Chapter 4. Rationalizing the Meanings of African Migrations No access Pages 119 - 160
Chapter 5. Gendering the Diaspora Identities of Second-Generation African Immigrant Girls No access Pages 161 - 206
Chapter 6. African Immigrants and Native-Born Blacks: Discourses on Finding Common Ground No access Pages 207 - 252
Chapter 7. Imagining the Future of African Immigrant Identities in Migration Studies No access Pages 253 - 278
