Social Identity Development: Africans to United States

There are a plethora of racial identity development models based on experiences of racial minorities in the United States which Halverson and Ken Williams use in their Social Identity class. None of these models describe the experience of immigrants and long-term residents of color from Asia, So America, and Africa. Halverson and Williams interviewed 25 Black and Arab Africans who have lived in the United States in order to understand if there is a pattern of identity development for this population that could be replicated in a model. Based on these interviews, they developed a model which they named the Identity Development Model of African Sojourners to the United States. This model has implications for educators and social service providers. The model will be shared followed by a discussion of the experiences and observations of participants