In this paper, I explore how diasporic Cabo Verdean-Americans with Jewish ancestry (especially those living in the New England region of the U.S.) experience their racially and spiritually mixed (and doubly or even triply stigmatized) identity. Being African in (racist) North America presents enormous challenges. Being Jewish in (increasingly anti-Semitic) North America presents different but somewhat parallel challenges. To account for unexpected identity crossings, I combine critical race theory with a Geertzian approach to understanding social worlds. In chronicling the experiences of Cape Verdeans who embrace divergent components of their multi-layered racial and spiritual heritage, I consider whether Cabo Verdeans might present an ...
Identity is one of the social constructs that gives a sense of belonging to an individual or a group...
This qualitative study critically examined how African immigrants experience racialization and the p...
This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the ...
As a Black American and fourth generation Cape Verdean American growing up in the United States, I’v...
In this thesis, I explore the ways by which new-wave black African immigrants confront and negotiate...
Cape Verdean immigrants in the United States worked to establish their own unique ethnic identity in...
This study examines the social processes through which racial and ethnic identity is constructed. It...
There are several communities at the intersection of both the African and Jewish Diasporas, but the ...
Based on archival research in six countries, this thesis distils new documentary material into an an...
This project is about what it has meant to be "black" in twentieth century New England for immigrant...
The Moroccan-descended Jewish community of Iquitos, Perú has engaged in large-scale migration to Isr...
This dissertation explores the cultural construction of ethnic identities, and suggests that the soc...
Diasporas are fluid cultural constructs that foster identity, community, and connections over time, ...
Of the approximately 6.8 million Jews in the United States Jews of color (Dashefsky and Sheskin 2015...
In the United States, the idea of having a "choice" in the construction of identity is made problema...
Identity is one of the social constructs that gives a sense of belonging to an individual or a group...
This qualitative study critically examined how African immigrants experience racialization and the p...
This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the ...
As a Black American and fourth generation Cape Verdean American growing up in the United States, I’v...
In this thesis, I explore the ways by which new-wave black African immigrants confront and negotiate...
Cape Verdean immigrants in the United States worked to establish their own unique ethnic identity in...
This study examines the social processes through which racial and ethnic identity is constructed. It...
There are several communities at the intersection of both the African and Jewish Diasporas, but the ...
Based on archival research in six countries, this thesis distils new documentary material into an an...
This project is about what it has meant to be "black" in twentieth century New England for immigrant...
The Moroccan-descended Jewish community of Iquitos, Perú has engaged in large-scale migration to Isr...
This dissertation explores the cultural construction of ethnic identities, and suggests that the soc...
Diasporas are fluid cultural constructs that foster identity, community, and connections over time, ...
Of the approximately 6.8 million Jews in the United States Jews of color (Dashefsky and Sheskin 2015...
In the United States, the idea of having a "choice" in the construction of identity is made problema...
Identity is one of the social constructs that gives a sense of belonging to an individual or a group...
This qualitative study critically examined how African immigrants experience racialization and the p...
This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the ...