1st Edition

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

Edited By Kassahun H. Kebede Copyright 2020
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

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. In the half a century since the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, close to 1.4 million... Read more

    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

    Biography

    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.