Relations Between Africans African Americans And Afro Caribbeans

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Relations Between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Tensions, Indifference and Harmony by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

This is the second edition and an expanded version of the first one. The work examines relations between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans and the problems they face when they interact and how they see each other. It also looks at what unites them and what separates them. Relations between members of these groups, which are sometimes described as distinct ethnic groups, are characterised by tensions, harmony and indifference towards each other in spite of their common identity as a people of African origin. The author explains why. This edition includes new material and complements the author's other works, “Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities,” and “Africans and African Americans: Complex Relations, Prospects and Challenges.”

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The author looks at relations between Africans and African Americans and how they see each other. There are a lot of misconceptions which have an impact on how Africans and African Americans interact, with the media playing a major role in perpetuating myths about both.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : Intercontinental Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066885883

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Relations Between Africans and African Americans by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The author, born and brought up in Africa, looks at relations between Africans and African Americans which have sometimes been described by different observers as "stormy," "complex," "sticky," and even "hostile" as one Nigerian professor put it. This is the third edition which includes information about African immigrants in the United States. Together with foreign students from Africa, they constitute the largest number of continental Africans who interact with African Americans on daily basis.

Author : Yoku Shaw-Taylor,Steven A. Tuch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074254088X

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The Other African Americans by Yoku Shaw-Taylor,Steven A. Tuch Pdf

Despite their growing presence, research on Caribbean and, especially, African immigrants has been scant. The scarcity of writings on these "other" African Americans contributes to the invisibility of these groups. The objective of this project is to broaden our understanding of these other African Americans. A focus on intra-racial dynamics among African Americans is important because of the ever-growing diversity of America's black population. The Other African Americans is an edited volume of original research that provides historical and contemporary information on African and Caribbean individuals and families. Each chapter addresses a particular topical area covering the most salient issues facing these immigrants to the U.S. today.

Author : Chrystal Y. Grey,Thomas Janoski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498554503

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Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans by Chrystal Y. Grey,Thomas Janoski Pdf

How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own country and immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean are conversely part of “the dominant group.” Unlike previous research that compares highly educated Afro-Caribbeans to the broad range of African-Americans, this study holds social-class constant by looking only at successful blacks in the upper-middle-class from both groups. This book finds that African-Americans pursue overachievement strategies of working much harder than others do, while Afro-Caribbeans follow an optimistic job strategy expecting promotions and success. However, African-Americans are more likely to use confrontational strategies if their mobility is blocked. The main cause of these differences is that Afro-Caribbeans grow up in a system where they have many examples of black politicians and business leaders (35–90% of their countries are black) and African-Americans have fewer role models (12–14% of the United States are black). Further, the schooling system in Afro-Caribbean countries does not label blacks as underachievers because the schools are almost entirely black. A further problem that African-Americans face is the resentment of a small but significant number of blacks who have little social mobility. They accuse socially mobile African Americans of “acting white,” which is a phenomenon that Afro-Caribbeans almost never face and they call it “an African-American thing.” To demonstrate this difference, Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans does a historical-comparative analysis of the differences between the black experience after slavery in the United States and Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and St. Kitts-Nevis. The authors interview fifty-seven black people and find consistent differences between the US and Caribbean black citizens. Using theories of symbolic interaction and ressentiment, this work challenges previous studies that either claim that Afro-Caribbeans are more motivated than African-Americans, or studies that show that controlling for class, each group is more or less the same.

Author : Trica Danielle Keaton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352624

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Black France / France Noire by Trica Danielle Keaton Pdf

In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.

Author : Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300244915

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African Americans and Africa by Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden Pdf

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.

Author : Tugggstar Togobo
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511614439

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The Secret Relationship Between Africans and Blacks by Tugggstar Togobo Pdf

People from the African continent have been migrating to other parts of the world for centuries. Many through kidnap and forced labour and others by choice. What happens when new migrants meet their distant relatives decades and centuries later? Is it one big family reunion? Or is centuries filled with pent up tension and hostility on display. "The Secret Relationship between Africans and Blacks" is an intriguing historical and social analysis of the tensions that exist between Black people of the African continent and the diaspora. It is a unique commentary that journeys from historical Africa to the Caribbean, Britain and the American continent; while providing insight into the historical realities of Black people in Britain, West Africa and America.

Author : John W. Frazier,Joe T. Darden,Norah F. Henry
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438436845

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The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century by John W. Frazier,Joe T. Darden,Norah F. Henry Pdf

Offers important new perspectives on the African diaspora in North America. Drawing on the work of social scientists from geographic, historical, sociological, and political science perspectives, this volume offers new perspectives on the African diaspora in the United States and Canada. It has been approximately four centuries since the first Africans set foot in North America, and although it is impossible for any text to capture the complete Black experience on the continent, the persistent legacy of Black inequality and the winds of dramatic change are inseparable parts of the current African diaspora experience. In addition to comparing and contrasting the experiences and geographic patterns of the African diaspora in the United States and Canada, the book also explores important distinctions between the experiences of African Americans and those of more recent African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants.

Author : Rosemary Sadlier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Black people
ISBN : 0994929269

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Black History by Rosemary Sadlier Pdf

Author : Irma Watkins-Owens
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253210488

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Blood Relations by Irma Watkins-Owens Pdf

In Blood Relations, Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1930, 40,000 Caribbean immigrants settled in New York City and joined with African Americans to create the unique ethnic community of Harlem. Watkins-Owens confronts issues of Caribbean immigrant and black American relations, placing their interaction in the context of community formation. She draws the reader into a cultural milieu that included the radical tradition of stepladder speaking; Marcus Garvey's contentious leadership; the underground numbers operations of Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs; and the literary renaissance and emergence of black journalists. Through interviews, census data, and biography, Watkins-Owens shows how immigrants and southern African American migrants settled together in railroad flats and brownstones, worked primarily at service occupations, often lodged with relatives or home people, and strove to "make it" in New York.

Author : Katrina Bell McDonald,Caitlin Cross-Barnet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351018166

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Marriage in Black by Katrina Bell McDonald,Caitlin Cross-Barnet Pdf

Despite the messages we hear from social scientists, policymakers, and the media, black Americans do in fact get married—and many of these marriages last for decades. Marriage in Black offers a progressive perspective on black marriage that rejects talk of black relationship "pathology" in order to provide an understanding of enduring black marriage that is richly lived. The authors offer an in-depth investigation of details and contexts of black married life, and seek to empower black married couples whose intimate relationships run contrary to common—but often inaccurate—stereotypes. Considering historical influences from Antebellum slavery onward, this book investigates contemporary married life among more than 60 couples born after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Husbands and wives tell their stories, from how they met, to how they decided to marry, to what their life is like five years after the wedding and beyond. Their stories reveal the experiences of the American-born and of black immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean, with explorations of the "ideal" marriage, parenting, finances, work, conflict, the criminal justice system, religion, and race. These couples show us that black family life has richness that belies common stereotypes, with substantial variation in couples’ experiences based on social class, country of origin, gender, religiosity, and family characteristics.

Author : Christina M. Greer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199989317

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Black Ethnics by Christina M. Greer Pdf

In an age where racial and ethnic identity intersect, intertwine, and interact in increasingly complex ways, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream offers a superb and rigorous analysis of black politics and coalitions in the post-Civil Rights era. Using an original survey of a New York City labor population and multiple national data sources, author Christina M. Greer explores the political significance of ethnicity for new immigrant and native-born blacks. Black Ethnics concludes that racial and ethnic identities affect the ways in which black ethnic groups conceptualize their possibilities for advancement and placement within the American polity. The ethnic and racial dual identity for blacks leads to significant distinctions in political behavior, feelings of incorporation, and policy choices in ways not previously theorized. The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, and political landscape in the U.S. An important question for social scientists is how these 'new' blacks will behave politically in the US. Should we expect new black immigrants to orient themselves to politics in the same manner as native Blacks? Will the different histories of the new immigrants and native-born blacks lead to different political orientations and behavior, and perhaps to political tensions and conflict among black ethnic groups residing in America? And to what extent will this new population fracture the black coalition inside of the Democratic party? With increases in immigration of black ethnic populations in the U.S., the political, social, and economic integration processes of black immigrants does not completely echo that of native-born American blacks. The emergent complexity of black intra-racial identity and negotiations within the American polity raise new questions about black political incorporation, assimilation, acceptance, and fulfillment of the American Dream. By comparing Afro-Caribbean and African groups to native-born blacks, this book develops a more nuanced and accurate understanding of the 'new black America' in the twenty-first century. Lastly, Black Ethnics explores how foreign-born blacks create new ways of defining and understanding black politics and coalitions in the post-Civil Rights era.

Author : Luisa Marcela Ossa,Debbie Lee-DiStefano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498587099

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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean by Luisa Marcela Ossa,Debbie Lee-DiStefano Pdf

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement that there are groups who are of African and Asian descent. In regard to their relationships with the dominant Europeanized center, references to both groups typically only view them as singular entities. What this interdisciplinary collection presents is a more cohesive approach that strives to place them at the center together and view their relationships in their historical contexts.

Author : Darién J. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024859

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Slavery and Beyond by Darién J. Davis Pdf

The slave market in Seville, while still relatively small, became one of the most active in Europe. Many called the city the 'New Babylon.' Northern and sub-Saharan Africans comprised more than 50 percent of the inhabitants of several of Seville's neighborhoods. The African populations became so socially and politically important that in 1475 the Crown appointed Juan de Valladolid, its royal servant and mayoral, to represent Seville's Afro-Iberian community. Churches and charities catered to its spiritual and material needs.