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Fitting In and standing out: identity and transnationalism among second-generation African immigrants in the United States 融入与脱颖而出:美国第二代非洲移民的身份认同与跨国主义
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1559789
E. Chacko
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the ethno-national and racial identities adopted by and assigned to 1.5 and 2nd generation African immigrants and the transnational connections of this group using a focus group discussion and 30 semi-structured interviews with full-time undergraduates enrolled at universities in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Belonging was critical in framing identity for this group over the life course. An early emphasis on ethno-national African identity gave way over time to identities that more closely aligned with the realities of the second generation. During college this group sought out African-based traditions and cultures, fusing these with American sensibilities to reflect their complex and hybrid identities. Transnational connections with Africa were expressed through Afrocentric music, fashion, art and dance rather than physical movements to the continent. S⁠tudents considered themselves powerful future change agents, who through transnational activities could improve the image of Africa and help in the development of their ancestral homelands.
摘要:本文采用焦点小组讨论和30个半结构化访谈的方法,分析了1.5代和2代非洲移民所采用和分配的民族和种族认同,以及这一群体的跨国联系。在整个生命历程中,归属感对塑造这一群体的身份至关重要。早期对非洲民族认同的强调,随着时间的推移,让位给了更贴近第二代现实的认同。在大学期间,这群人寻找以非洲为基础的传统和文化,将它们与美国人的情感融合在一起,以反映他们复杂的混合身份。与非洲的跨国联系是通过以非洲为中心的音乐、时尚、艺术和舞蹈来表达的,而不是通过身体运动来表达的。S -学生认为自己是未来强有力的变革推动者,他们通过跨国活动可以改善非洲的形象,并有助于祖籍国的发展。
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引用次数: 5
The African second generation in the United States – identity and transnationalism: an introduction 在美国的非洲第二代:身份认同与跨国主义
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1559791
Kassahun Kebede
ABSTRACT The New African Diaspora’s second generation in the United States is large and growing, yet it is one of the least studied immigrant groups. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together recent work by immigration researchers on the identity negotiations and transnational engagements of the children of first-generation African immigrants. Second generation Africans, who create hybrid identities at the intersection of their ethnic/national origins and the racial categories of U.S. society, often contest (and sometimes embrace), being boxed into embracing a Black identity that is the product of specific African American histories, values, and experiences not shared by recent African immigrants. Contributors examine these issues, as well as the occurrence, distinctive nature of, and motivations for second-generation economic and cultural participation in transnational activities. The collection by key immigration scholars represents a groundbreaking contribution to the nascent discussion of the New African Diaspora’s second generation.
新非洲移民在美国的第二代人数众多且不断增长,但他们却是最少被研究的移民群体之一。本期特刊的目的是汇集移民研究人员关于第一代非洲移民子女的身份谈判和跨国参与的最新工作。第二代非洲人在他们的种族/民族起源和美国社会种族类别的交叉点上创造了混合身份,他们经常争论(有时是拥抱),被限制在接受黑人身份,这种身份是特定的非裔美国人历史、价值观和经历的产物,而不是最近的非洲移民所共有的。作者研究了这些问题,以及第二代经济和文化参与跨国活动的发生、独特性质和动机。主要移民学者的收藏代表了对新非洲侨民第二代新生讨论的开创性贡献。
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引用次数: 4
Gauging panethnicity: affirmative action, African Americans, and children of black immigrants 衡量泛种族:平权行动、非裔美国人和黑人移民的子女
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1559790
Onoso Imoagene
ABSTRACT This article examines second generation Nigerian adults’ attitudes to affirmative action and whether black immigrants and their children should be beneficiaries of the policy to gauge their panethnic levels and notions of linked fate with African Americans. I find evidence of panethnic developments based on shared racial status and experiences of discrimination. However, this panethnic identity exists alongside emerging class based affinities with middle class Black Americans.
本文考察了第二代尼日利亚成年人对平权行动的态度,以及黑人移民及其子女是否应该成为该政策的受益者,以衡量他们的泛种族水平和与非裔美国人命运相关的观念。我发现了基于共同的种族地位和歧视经历的泛民族发展的证据。然而,这种泛种族身份与中产阶级黑人美国人的新兴阶级亲和力同时存在。
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引用次数: 3
Genealogies of horror: three stories of slave-women, motherhood, and murder in the Americas 恐怖家谱:美洲奴隶妇女、母亲和谋杀的三个故事
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-11-13 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1541959
Lamonte Aidoo
ABSTRACT This article examines three cases of infanticide committed by slave women in the Americas – Margaret Garner (1856) of Ohio, Ignácia (1868) of Paraná, Brazil, and Justina (1878) of Rio de Janeiro. The article argues that each woman sought to dislodge their own as well as their children's place in what I term slavery's ‘genealogy of horror’, making the act of killing their children into an expression of black female agency, love, and insurgence against slavery. The cases of Justina and Ignácia's, I argue, provide a counternarrative to the myth of Brazil's genteel and harmonious slavery, propagated throughout the nineteenth century, by exposing the violence and desperation in which slave women and their progeny lived. In the second half of the article, I examine how cases of infanticide were depicted and used in the nineteenth-century abolitionist poetry of Brazilian poet Castro Alves and noted African American writer Frances Harper.
摘要本文考察了美洲三起奴隶妇女杀害婴儿的案件——俄亥俄州的Margaret Garner(1856)、巴西巴拉那的Ignácia(1868)和里约热内卢的Justina(1878)。这篇文章认为,每一位女性都试图在我所说的奴隶制的“恐怖谱系”中取代自己和孩子的位置,使杀害孩子的行为成为黑人女性代理、爱和反抗奴隶制的表达。我认为,Justina和Ignácia的案件通过揭露奴隶妇女及其后代生活的暴力和绝望,为整个19世纪传播的巴西上流社会和谐奴隶制的神话提供了一种反叙事。在文章的后半部分,我研究了巴西诗人卡斯特罗·阿尔维斯和著名非裔美国作家弗朗西斯·哈珀在19世纪的废奴主义诗歌中是如何描述和使用杀婴案件的。
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引用次数: 1
The ‘African gangs’ narrative: associating Blackness with criminality and other anti-Black racist tropes in Australia “非洲帮派”的叙述:在澳大利亚,将黑人与犯罪和其他反黑人种族主义比喻联系在一起
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-11-13 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1541958
Mandisi Majavu
ABSTRACT This article explores and theorizes anti-Black racist discourses that shape the ways in which the Australian media and other mainstream Australian institutions talk about and view Black Africans. It argues that the long-standing racist trope of synonymizing Blackness with criminality is widespread in Australia. Thus, among other things, this paper theorizes the Australian media narrative of ‘African gangs’ who are supposedly causing havoc in the State of Victoria, Australia. It argues that the January 2018 media reporting about the so-called ‘African gangs’ is a good example that illustrates how the long-standing racist trope of conflating Blackness with criminality is employed in Australia. The discussion is framed within a Black/African Diaspora theoretical framework that allows this study to conceptualize and connect the lived experiences of Black people globally.
本文探讨并理论化了反黑人种族主义话语,这些话语塑造了澳大利亚媒体和其他主流澳大利亚机构谈论和看待非洲黑人的方式。它认为,长期以来将黑人与犯罪等同起来的种族主义比喻在澳大利亚很普遍。因此,除其他事项外,本文理论化了澳大利亚媒体对“非洲帮派”的叙述,他们据称在澳大利亚维多利亚州造成了严重破坏。它认为,2018年1月媒体关于所谓“非洲帮派”的报道是一个很好的例子,说明了长期以来将黑人与犯罪混为一谈的种族主义修辞在澳大利亚是如何被利用的。讨论是在黑人/非洲侨民的理论框架内进行的,该框架允许本研究概念化并将全球黑人的生活经历联系起来。
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引用次数: 53
Transcultural body spaces: re-inventing and performing headwrap practice among young Congolese women in London 跨文化的身体空间:在伦敦的年轻刚果妇女中重新发明和执行头巾练习
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-10-25 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1537592
Benedetta Morsiani
ABSTRACT This article examines embodied representation of race, ethnicity, and gender, questioning ideas of cultural appropriation. Using the London-based Congolese transnational fashion brand Kiyana Wraps as a case study, the article addresses how young Congolese designers re-invent their cultural heritage to conceive the label stylisation and construct meanings of Blackness/Africanness. The article also explores the brand’s social spaces, where the headwrap ritual is used by different actors to perform hybrid identities. In addition, wearing the headwrap reveals symbolic metaphors of empowerment, through which intertwined ‘feminist’ and ‘feminine’ identities are evoked. The paper examines how Congolese women are creatively taking inspiration from the environment of London to produce innovative fashion trajectories as lived socio-cultural experiences. It argues how the headwrap ritual signifies an aesthetic and material process through which specific racial and ethnic boundaries are transcended, fabricating transcultural body spaces which encompass individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds.
摘要本文考察了种族、民族和性别的具体表现,对文化挪用的观念提出了质疑。本文以总部位于伦敦的刚果跨国时尚品牌Kiyana Wraps为案例研究,探讨了年轻的刚果设计师如何重新发明他们的文化遗产,以构思标签风格并构建黑人/非洲的含义。文章还探讨了该品牌的社交空间,不同的演员在那里使用头饰仪式来表演混合身份。此外,佩戴头巾揭示了赋权的象征性隐喻,通过这些隐喻,“女权主义”和“女性化”的身份交织在一起。本文探讨了刚果女性如何创造性地从伦敦的环境中汲取灵感,创造出创新的时尚轨迹,作为生活的社会文化体验。它认为,头饰仪式如何意味着一个美学和物质过程,通过这个过程,特定的种族和民族界限被超越,创造出包含不同文化背景的个人的跨文化身体空间。
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引用次数: 2
The (un)making of Bimshire and the Black Englishman: Barbadian nationalism in post-colonial Britain 比姆希尔与英国黑人的形成:后殖民时代英国的巴巴多斯民族主义
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-09-20 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1519896
S. Clarke
ABSTRACT This paper considers Partha Chatterjee’s [1993. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press] theory of anti-colonial nationalism – itself a response to Benedict Anderson [(1983) 2006. Imagined Communities. Reprint, London: Verso] – to understand how migrants from Barbados and their children construct their national identities in postcolonial Britain. Using interviews with first-, second- and third-generation Barbadian-Britons, it aims to determine what it means to be Barbadian, fifty years since independence, and how this identity has developed in the long shadow of colonialism and the more recent era of sovereignty. Guided by Chatterjee’s framework of spiritual and material nationalism, the findings locate Barbadian nationalism in the dynamic spiritual domain of family, racial consciousness and culture, unaffected by British aesthetic and institutions that have endured since the island’s occupation. How is this identity constructed within the borders of the former colonial power? This research locates the Caribbean within these competing discourses of nationalism, particularly nationalism as it responds and adapts to migration.
本文考虑了Partha Chatterjee[1993]。国家及其碎片:殖民和后殖民历史。普林斯顿,新泽西州:普林斯顿大学出版社]反殖民民族主义理论-本身对本尼迪克特·安德森的回应[(1983)2006]。想象的社区。再版,伦敦:Verso] -了解巴巴多斯移民和他们的孩子如何在后殖民时期的英国构建他们的民族身份。通过对第一代、第二代和第三代巴巴多斯裔英国人的采访,本书旨在确定在独立50年后,作为巴巴多斯人意味着什么,以及这种身份在殖民主义的长期阴影和最近的主权时代是如何发展的。在查特吉的精神和物质民族主义框架的指导下,研究结果将巴巴多斯民族主义定位于家庭、种族意识和文化的动态精神领域,不受英国美学和自该岛被占领以来一直存在的制度的影响。这种身份是如何在前殖民大国的边界内构建的?本研究将加勒比海地区置于民族主义的这些相互竞争的话语中,特别是民族主义,因为它回应和适应移民。
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引用次数: 0
Science-women: arcane knowledge and African spirituality in independent African-American cinema of the 1990s 科学女性:20世纪90年代独立的非裔美国人电影中的神秘知识和非洲精神
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-09-12 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1519894
Haseenah Ebrahim
ABSTRACT This article explores the significant role played by arcane knowledge and expressions of African spirituality in the iconography of powerful black women in three films directed by independent African-American filmmakers in the 1990s: Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993, USA), Mother of the River (Zeinabu irene Davis, 1995, USA), and Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997, USA). My discussion draws on the orature and legendary tales of West African-based cosmologies in the African diasporas of the Americas and the concept (and practice) of ‘conjure’ in African–American cultures. It argues that heroic black women characters possessing extraordinary or supernatural powers not only predate the current vogue of cinematic superheroism, but that the iconography of such ‘science-women’ is embedded in culturally specific, African-rooted cosmological, epistemological and spiritual contexts. I argue that the feminine power celebrated in the films by the independent African-American filmmakers discussed here draw on legendary and historical accounts of women in African diasporic oral, literary and spiritual traditions for their cinematic storytelling to construct an affirmative and paradigmatic model of black female heroism based on empowering African spiritual beliefs and arcane knowledge.
摘要:本文探讨了20世纪90年代由独立的非洲裔美国人导演的三部电影中,神秘的知识和非洲精神的表达在强大的黑人女性形象中所起的重要作用:《桑科法》(Haile Gerima, 1993,美国)、《河流之母》(Zeinabu irene Davis, 1995,美国)和《夏娃的河口》(Kasi Lemmons, 1997,美国)。我的讨论借鉴了散居在美洲的非洲人的以西非为基础的宇宙论的自然和传奇故事,以及非洲裔美国人文化中“魔法”的概念(和实践)。它认为,拥有非凡或超自然力量的英雄黑人女性角色不仅早于当前电影超级英雄主义的流行,而且这些“科学女性”的形象根植于特定的文化中,根植于非洲的宇宙论、认识论和精神背景中。我认为,在这里讨论的独立的非裔美国电影人在电影中歌颂的女性力量,借鉴了非洲流散妇女的传说和历史故事,口头的,文学的和精神的传统,为他们的电影叙事构建了一个肯定的和典型的黑人女性英雄主义模型,基于赋予非洲精神信仰和神秘知识。
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引用次数: 3
Unaccented beat: positional politics and the enigma of visibility in The Stuart Hall Project 无伴奏节拍:斯图亚特大厅项目中的位置政治和可见性之谜
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1516276
Hager Weslati
ABSTRACT In his essay film, The Stuart Hall Project, Akomfrah resumes his exploration of the multi-layered screen approach to political aesthetics, offering a complex portrait of his subject’s abiding concern with social inequality, tracking its manifestations in the ‘conjugated cultural realities’ of colonialism, post-colonialism and neo-colonialism down to its vanishing point in the ‘neo-liberal problem space’ of present-day Britain. Paying close attention to the use of associative editing, Vertovian color montage, and contrapuntal rhythmicity, this paper highlights the film’s critical take on the coalescence of multicultural drift, the slow moving glacier of feminism, and the paradigm of the diaspora into three-layered screens through which positional politics is redefined within the framework of Présence Africaine and the larger trajectory of contemporary African and diasporan artists, intellectuals, and activists.
在他的散文电影《斯图尔特·霍尔计划》中,Akomfrah重新探索了政治美学的多层银幕方法,为他的主题提供了一幅复杂的肖像,描绘了他对社会不平等的持久关注,追踪了它在殖民主义、后殖民主义和新殖民主义的“共轭文化现实”中的表现,直到它在当今英国的“新自由主义问题空间”中的消失点。通过密切关注联想剪辑、维托维色彩蒙太奇和对位节奏的使用,本文强调了电影对多元文化漂移的融合、女权主义缓慢移动的冰川和流散到三层屏幕的范式的批判,通过这些银幕,位置政治在pr sence Africaine的框架内被重新定义,以及当代非洲和流散艺术家、知识分子和活动家的更大轨迹。
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Hybridizing and decolonizing the metropole: Stuart Hall, Caribbean routes and diasporic identity 特刊:大都市的混合和非殖民化:斯图尔特·霍尔、加勒比海路线和流散身份
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2018-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1505192
F. Demissie, Sandra Jackson
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