African Diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean, African American cultures, African American and American Indian Relations, Race and Racism, Education, Anthropology, Blackness, Identity, Transnationalism

Contemporary African Videos and their Impact on African Identity and Personality Abroad

by PADMORE AGBEMABIESE

“One should follow the wind”: Individualized filial piety and support exchanges in Indian immigrant families in the United States

by karuna sharma

co-authored with Candace L. Kemp in 'Journal of Aging Studies', 2012.

Within the context of social and demographic transformation, including trend toward globalization,
changing... more Within the context of social and demographic transformation, including trend toward globalization,
changing patterns of longevity and immigration, this study examines the informal support
exchanges between older parents and their adult children in Indian (South Asian) multigenerational
families in the United States. Guided by symbolic interactionist thought and a life
course perspective, this paper draws on qualitative data from in-depth, semi-structured
interviews with 10 older adults in Atlanta, Georgia to study their expectations of and experiences
with family support and the principles of Grounded TheoryMethods informed our analysis. Filial
piety, known as seva in the Indian culture, was used as a framework by the participants to make
sense of support exchanges and intergenerational relationships within their own families.
Participants' accounts of support exchanges with their parents in India do not always match
with the support exchanged with their children in the U.S. The similarities and differences
participants speak of as they compare themselves to the traditional practices surrounding seva
suggest “individualized” practices of intergenerational relationships/familial support and the
influence of and interplay between individual, familial, and wider societal forces. Our findings
have implications for policy and practice with older immigrant adults and their families, and
shed light on the experiences of growing old in a foreign land.

Slavery and Colonialism: The Worst Terrorism on Africa

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authored with Omar A. Eno, Mohamed H. Ingiriis, and Jamal M. Haji; Published in African Renaissance, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2012.

Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is... more Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is the axis of evil and devastation of mankind. However, the deliberate use of the term terrorism in recent decades was carefully selected, mainly, against a certain religion (Islam). The idea was then globally politicized by the Western world. Leaving that scholarly view in its own right, we disagree with the opinion raising terrorism as the devil’s just-born child of evil, when in reality Africans had been terrorized for centuries as slaves and human chattel. Hence the basis for the concept of this thesis: conceptualizing the episode of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist’ from the broader perspective of its practice from the Middle Passage or the Atlantic Slave Trade. To portray that argument and broaden the scope of the debate over this critically sensitive subject, we divided the discussion into three sections: an examination of what constitutes terrorism and terrorist; history of terrorism and terrorists from an Africa perspective; and the ideological constraints within the subject of terrorism as practiced by the US and its Western allies.

Issue 3.2 Masquerade: Caribbean Issue, Editorial

by Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings

Queer no me da: Traduciendo fronteras sexuales y raciales en San Salvador y Washington DC

by Maria Amelia Viteri

Encyclopedia of African Thought

by Paul Hanson

Review of" The Impact of Menstrual Side Effects on Contraceptive Discontinuation

by Diepiriye Kuku-Siemons

De Nelson Mandela à Barack Obama: l'identité noire aux Etats-Unis et en Afrique du Sud

by Joël Groeneveld

How did black identity integrate into American and South African identity between the fifties and the new millennium?... more How did black identity integrate into American and South African identity between the fifties and the new millennium? Investigation of the way blackness is viewed through the study of texts of Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Steve Biko, Martin Luther King, Thabo Mbeki and Barack Obama.

• “Entering and Exiting Blackness: A Color Controversy in Eighteenth-Century Spain.” Categories and Crossings: Critical Race Studies and the Spanish World, special issue of Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10. 1 (March 2009): 43-58.

by Ruth Hill