Pan African Spaces

Msia Kibona Clark; Loy Azalia; Phiwokuhle Mnyandu

doi:10.5771/9781498581936

Summary

This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow for understandings of how those migrations impacted personal and community identities. Each of the personal essays will be written by bicultural Africans/Blacks from around the world. The essays represent a wide spectrum of experiences and viewpoints central to the bicultural Africans/Black experience. The contributors offer poignant and grounded perspectives on the diverse ways race, ethnicity, and culture are experienced, debated, and represented. All of the chapters contribute more broadly to writings on dual identities, and the various ways bicultural Africans/Blacks navigate their identities and their places in African and Diaspora communities.

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Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8192-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8193-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 322
Product type: Edited Book

1. Copyright Page No access
2. Contents No access
1. 1. The United States No access
  2. Beyond Berlin: The Meaning of Being Black and Bi-Cultural in the South African Outlier No access
  3. Black Migration to Europe No access
  4. Table of Contents Section/Breakdown No access
2. 1. The Complexity of Identity No access
  2. Afropolitanism—The Sibling to Negritude No access
  3. Pan Africanization No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Racism: A Black Immigrant’s Experience No access
  2. Individualized Racial Experience No access
  3. The Education Gap No access
  4. Generational Disparities No access
  5. Disparities among Black Immigrants No access
  6. Affirmative Action No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
1. Chapter 3 No access
2. 1. I Could Not Tell Who I Am. Sometimes, I Was Called “Negrita” No access
  2. Soy Española No access
  3. Am I Spanish? Negra? No access
  4. The African Diaspora No access
  5. The World No access
  6. Healing No access
  7. Afrodescendiente, Hispano-Guineana No access
  8. Now and the Future No access
3. 1. Notes No access
4. 1. II No access
5. Poem 1 No access
1. 1. Cabo-What? Knowing the Past in Order to Understand the Present No access
  2. Welcome to the United States: Sky Scrapers, New Opportunities and Changing Family Dynamics No access
  3. One School, Two Learning Systems: Was This Racist? No access
  4. Meeting Mrs. Anderson and Getting to Lincoln No access
  5. Is an African Girl Good Enough for an Elite Private School? Among the Many Who Want You to Succeed, There are Some Who Don’t No access
  6. First Day of School: Uniform, Luxury Cars, and Me! No access
  7. Foreign Girl and Foreign Foods No access
  8. I Am Not Adopted, Just Ashamed No access
  9. Why Do I Have to Make Eggs for My Dad? One Girl, Two Worlds No access
  10. What Is Black and Who In The World is Jane Eyre? No access
  11. Finding Light Amid Darkness No access
  12. Learning to Live Between Two Worlds and Making it Work No access
2. Chapter 8 No access
3. 1. African Girl Child in the DMV No access
  2. African Music and the Creation of African Cultural Spaces in the Diaspora No access
  3. Our Music as Cultural Medium and Manifestation No access
  4. Notes No access
4. Chapter 10 No access
1. Chapter 11 No access
2. Chapter 12 No access
3. Chapter 13 No access
1. 1. African (Return?) . . . American (Departure?) No access
  2. African (Endearment) . . . American (Denigration) No access
  3. African . . . American: The Chasm that Theft and Thriving Created No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Family, Politics, and Transition No access
  2. Back to the Motherland No access
  3. Relating with Other Ugandans Within South Africa No access
  4. How Has Being Bicultural Framed What It Means to be African in South Africa? No access
  5. How Has All This Impacted My Activism? No access
3. 1. Migration to South Africa: An Overview of International Migration and Congolese Influx in South Africa No access
  2. Relations between Black African Migrants and Black South Africans No access
  3. A Congolese in South Africa No access
  4. Migration and Language No access
  5. Cultural Identity No access
  6. Maintenance or Loss of Congolese languages No access
  7. Conclusion No access
4. Chapter 17 No access
1. 1. Bicultural Socialization No access
  2. Themes in the Literature No access
  3. Maintaining an Ethnic Identity No access
  4. Understanding Race and Adopting a Racial Identity Over time No access
  5. Keepers of Culture: Role of Women in Migration No access
  6. Discussion No access
  7. Implications No access
2. Chapter 19 No access
3. 1. Theoretical Framework and Methodology No access
  2. The Haiti-Chicago Connection: A Brief History No access
  3. Rejection of Haitian Identity and Exploration of American Identity No access
  4. Reclamation of Heritage: Concrete and Symbolic Return to the Homeland No access
  5. Conclusion: Judge Lionel Jean-Baptiste, Hyphenated Identity, and Redefining African American Identity No access
4. Chapter 21 No access
5. Poem 2 No access
1. 1. African Diasporic Identity No access
  2. On Becoming Black No access
  3. Survival and Identity No access
  4. Mis Raíces, My Roots No access
  5. Indhira/On Being Black in Colombia No access
  6. Omilani/Grandmother—Hair Texture No access
  7. Omilani/On Not Being Black No access
  8. A Tale of Two Negritudes No access
  9. Black, White, and Color Off the Page No access
2. 1. Everyone Has a Right to Decide Their Own Destiny No access
  2. Everything me say, you say pro to the Black No access
  3. If You Live in a Glass House Don’t Throw Stones No access
  4. The Crack of the Whip, the Slave Ship, and My Brutalized Soul No access
  5. Black man you’re an African No access
  6. Colonized Education No access
  7. Proud Descendants of the African Race No access
3. 1. Embracing My Afro-Latino Identity No access
  2. Afro-Latinidad, Promoting Blackness, and the Black Diaspora No access
4. 1. Growing Up Black No access
  2. Wholly African American and Panamanian No access
  3. Identity as Profession No access
  4. Notes No access
5. 1. Theoretical Overview: From Négritude to Blackness No access
  2. Puerto Ricans on the West Coast: Research Design and Methodology No access
  3. Data Analysis No access
  4. Discussion No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Note No access
Bibliography No access Pages 291 - 308
Index No access Pages 309 - 314
About the Contributors No access Pages 315 - 322