Dr. Onoso Imoagene to Present Talk - "Beyond Expectations"
When |
Oct 18, 2017
from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM |
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Where | 216 WILLARD |
Contact Name | Jason Traverse |
Contact Phone | 814-867-4561 |
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Beyond Expectations examines the nature of second generation Nigerian
adults incorporation into British and American society. It seeks to understand
how race, ethnicity, and class shape identity and how globalization,
transnationalism and national context inform sense of self. In this talk, I
discuss the new theory presented in the book called beyond racialization
theory that helps explain why the Nigerian second generation did not forge
a reactive blackness, why they did not become culturally indistinguishable
from their proximal hosts, and why they have had more positive assimilation
outcomes. This theory identifies three key contributing factors: relations
with the proximal host (African Americans in the United States and Caribbeans
in Britain); the role of ethnicity as a resource in multitudinous ways; and
the role of transnational linkages and perspectives in transmitting a
diasporic ethnicity and offering up more ethnic options.
ABOUT DR. IMOAGENE
Dr. Imoagene studies International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation
with a special focus on firrst and second generation African immigrants in the
British and American Diasporas; Inter-ethnic group (black-on-black)
relations; Immigration and Education; and Migration and Development.
She takes a comparative approach in her research. Her book on the intersections
of race, class, and ethnicity among second generation Africans titled
Beyond Expectations: Second Generation Nigerians in the United States and
Britain was published by University of California Press. Her current research
project--The Dreams Project--is a multi-site study on Ghanaian and Nigerian
Diversity Visa Lottery Winners in the United States and their families back home.