The American Dream Through the Eyes of Black African Immigrants in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Dream Through the Eyes of Black African Immigrants in Texas write by Ami R. Moore. This book was released on 2013-04-18. The American Dream Through the Eyes of Black African Immigrants in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. Almost all of the study participants Moore interviewed considered America a land of opportunity. Additionally, most of the black African immigrants’ definitions of the American dream focused on material aspects. Although participants mostly reported that the United States had been good to them, they nonetheless felt that they had not yet achieved the American dream. Additionally, they reported that their lives in the United States had been, at best, incomplete. They also encountered other challenges which mainly reflected the moralistic aspect of the definition of the American dream. They reported experiences such as not being fully accepted by native-born Americans in general and by white Americans in particular, being discriminated against, and being unappreciated. In fact, all of these challenges created a sense of marginalization among study participants. However, aware of the benefits of migration, they were willing to endure these challenges.
Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research
Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research write by Tanja J. Burkhard. This book was released on 2021-11-16. Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research invites readers to consider what it means to conduct research within their own communities by interrogating local and global contexts of colonialism, race, and migration. The qualitative data at the centre of this book stem from a yearlong qualitative study of the lived experiences of Black women, who migrated to or spent a significant amount of time in the United States, as well as from the author's experiences as a Black German woman and former international student. It proposes Transnational Black Feminism as a framework in qualitative inquiry. Methodological considerations emerging from and complementary to this framework critically explore qualitative concepts, such as reciprocity, care, and the ethics with which research is conducted, to account for shifts in power dynamics in the research process and to radically work against the dehumanization of participants, their communities, and researchers. This short and accessible book is ideal for qualitative researchers, graduate students, and feminist scholars interested in the various dimensions of racialization, coloniality, language, and migration.
Changing Societies
Changing Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Societies write by Vincent Mariet. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Changing Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Putting movement at the center of our political and practical perspectives is to consider several issues related to the movement itself, including questions about the concept of “pure” culture. The migrant—s/he who moves—is seen as an “intruder” and a threat to cultural norms, but other frightening social mutations such as environmental problems or the growing place of artificial intelligence in societies are just some examples of evolving cultural and social identity, observable in each temporality, each geographical area and even in each discipline, and make it possible to study the different aspects of the dynamic movement that is at the origin of social changes. This volume explores the ways in which populations confronted with such social changes are affected, and which consequently can foster new ways of individual or collective decision-making.
British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital
British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital write by Alganesh Messele. This book was released on 2020-11-29. British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the extent to which British-born Black African youth have access to opportunities and support during their pre-school, primary school and secondary school years. Through the voice of British-born Black African youth, this book explores why and how some racial-ethnic and linguistic minority students fail academically while students from other linguistic minorities excel despite coming from similar socio-economic backgrounds. Drawing on interpretive-qualitative research analysis, the author demonstrates the racial dimension of social capital in education that challenges the traditional social capital theory, which recodes structural notions of racial inequality as primarily cultural, social, and human capital processes and interactions. In contrast to the focus on achievement gaps, the concept of opportunity gaps shows how and why language policies have shaped the educational experiences and outcomes of linguistic minority students. This book will be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and scholars of Multicultural Education, Black and African Diaspora Studies and Educational Sociology.
Hip-Hop in Africa
Hip-Hop in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hip-Hop in Africa write by Msia Kibona Clark. This book was released on 2018-04-30. Hip-Hop in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa’s biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African narratives of social, political, and economic realities. Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems. She also details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa following its emergence in the United States, assessing the impact of urbanization and demographics on the spread of hip-hop culture. Hip-Hop in Africa is a tribute to a genre and its artists as well as a timely examination that pushes the study of music and diaspora in critical new directions. Accessibly written by one of the foremost experts on African hip-hop, this book will easily find its place in the classroom.
