Beyond Expectations : Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain / Onoso Imoagene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Imoagene, Onoso, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nigerians--United States--Social conditions.

Nigerians.

Nigerians--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Children of immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Children of immigrants.

Children of immigrants--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Beyond Expectations, Onoso Imoagene delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. She argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of ";black"; identity that differs radically from African American and Black Caribbean notions of ";black"; in the United States and Britain. Instead of considering themselves in terms of their country of destination alone, second-generation Nigerians define themselves in complicated ways that balance racial status, a diasporic Nigerian ethnicity, a pan-African identity, and identification with fellow immigrants. Based on over 150 interviews, Beyond Expectations seeks to understand how race, ethnicity, and class shape identity and how globalization, transnationalism, and national context inform sense of self.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Setting the Context: Immigration, Assimilation versus Racialization, and the African and Nigerian Diasporas in the United States and Britain

2. "You Are Not Like Me!": The Impact of Intraracial Distinctions and Interethnic Relations on Identity Formation

3. "It's Un-Nigerian Not to Go to College": Education as an Ethnic Boundary

4. Forging a Diasporic Nigerian Ethnicity in the United States and Britain

5. On the Horns of Racialization: Middle Class, Ethnic, and Black

6. Feeling American in America, Not Feeling British in Britain

Conclusion

Appendix A: Notes on Method

Appendix B: Ethnic Identification Information

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965881

0520965884

OCLC:

958371512