Bound by Blackness: African Migration, Black Identity, and Linked Fate in Post-Civil Rights America

dc.contributor.advisorGullickson, Aaron
dc.contributor.authorAbedi-Anim, MeCherri
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-06T21:47:18Z
dc.date.available2017-09-06T21:47:18Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-06
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the identity formation of Ethiopian and Nigerian immigrants, their second generation children, and native born African Americans who reside in the Seattle metropolitan area. Using boundary formation theory, I argue that African immigrants and their second generation children are developing a shared sense of Black identity and racial solidarity (linked fate) with native born African Americans. This shared Black identity is illustrated through both Africans and African Americans’ recognition of one another as racial group members, the constraints on their Black identities, and their navigation of similar institutional and political contexts. I argue that this is highly suggestive of an expansion of the Black racial boundary, and the reconstitution of Black identity in the post-Civil Rights Era. Despite some boundary contraction within the Black racial category by some 1st generation Africans, the African 1.5 and second generation are engaging in boundary crossing particularly with African Americans through their bicultural identities. This process appears to be leading to the blurring of boundaries between the children of African immigrants and native born African Americans, especially through the 1.5 and second generations involvement and integration into African American social and professional organizations. Evidence presented in this dissertation suggests that there is a weakening of ethnic identity among the African 1.5 and second generation. This weakening of ethnic identity among the children of Ethiopians and Nigerians suggest subsequent generations of Africans born here in the United States will eventually be absorbed into an undifferentiated African American/Black category. Keywords: Ethiopians, Nigerians, African Americans, linked fate, Black identity, Africansen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/22696
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAfrican Americansen_US
dc.subjectAfrican immigrantsen_US
dc.subjectBlack identityen_US
dc.subjectEthiopiansen_US
dc.subjectlinked fateen_US
dc.subjectNigeriansen_US
dc.titleBound by Blackness: African Migration, Black Identity, and Linked Fate in Post-Civil Rights America
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Sociology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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