Abstract:This article focuses on the recent emergence of an “Afro-Dutch” category of self-identification among young people in Amsterdam. Dutch-born youth of different Afro-Caribbean and African backgrounds show a new sense of (and search for) a shared African heritage, and a growing desire for public exposure and recognition of this Africanness. Manifesting in, for example, media initiatives, performing arts, cultural festivals, and bodily fashions, this trend is characterized by an aesthetic emphasis on globalized Af… Show more
“…The focus on affect brought attention to the ‘hype’ around leisure practices during ‘homeland’ trips. This needs to be understood against the background of a broader trend towards rebranding ‘Africa’ (de Witte, 2014 ). While participants were often confronted with negative, stereotypical portrayals of Ghana/Africa, the global success of urban West African music and dance styles made it ‘cool’ to be African and express this in bodily ways.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, the global success of Azonto in particular, a dance craze that gained worldwide fame in 2011, had made it ‘cool’ to be African/Ghanaian and express this through the consumption of urban West‐African music and dance styles (de Witte, 2014). Describing her time at Afrochella, the ‘highlight’ of her last trip, Loretta said: There are also festivals in the Netherlands of course but I'm really into … everything Afro.…”
Section: Building Intimate Transnational Relationships Through Leisur...mentioning
Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this paper combines 'return' mobilities literature and youth studies to analyse the role of leisure practices during 'homeland' visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana when they are entering into adulthood. Using the notion of mobility trajectories, the paper shows that leisure practices facilitate young people's ability to establish and renew intimate transnational relationships with diasporic friends, and Ghana-based same-generation relatives and romantic partners.Differing from earlier stays in Ghana, young people expressed their emerging sense of independence by exploring alternative sides of the country with these peers, based on common interests and belonging to the same life-cycle cohort. The findings add complexity to the notion of the 'homeland' as a monolithic place of reconnecting with family and roots by drawing attention to the intersection between young people's pathways to adulthood and transnational mobility.
“…The focus on affect brought attention to the ‘hype’ around leisure practices during ‘homeland’ trips. This needs to be understood against the background of a broader trend towards rebranding ‘Africa’ (de Witte, 2014 ). While participants were often confronted with negative, stereotypical portrayals of Ghana/Africa, the global success of urban West African music and dance styles made it ‘cool’ to be African and express this in bodily ways.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, the global success of Azonto in particular, a dance craze that gained worldwide fame in 2011, had made it ‘cool’ to be African/Ghanaian and express this through the consumption of urban West‐African music and dance styles (de Witte, 2014). Describing her time at Afrochella, the ‘highlight’ of her last trip, Loretta said: There are also festivals in the Netherlands of course but I'm really into … everything Afro.…”
Section: Building Intimate Transnational Relationships Through Leisur...mentioning
Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this paper combines 'return' mobilities literature and youth studies to analyse the role of leisure practices during 'homeland' visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana when they are entering into adulthood. Using the notion of mobility trajectories, the paper shows that leisure practices facilitate young people's ability to establish and renew intimate transnational relationships with diasporic friends, and Ghana-based same-generation relatives and romantic partners.Differing from earlier stays in Ghana, young people expressed their emerging sense of independence by exploring alternative sides of the country with these peers, based on common interests and belonging to the same life-cycle cohort. The findings add complexity to the notion of the 'homeland' as a monolithic place of reconnecting with family and roots by drawing attention to the intersection between young people's pathways to adulthood and transnational mobility.
African American and Black Caribbean relations dominate research on interactions across black ethnic divides. Using National Survey of American Life data, we explore a different aspect of black interethnic attitudes: how close these groups feel toward Africans. African Americans and Black Caribbeans were largely similar in their feelings of closeness to Africans. For Black Caribbeans, younger and male respondents, those reporting higher levels of financial strain, living in the northeast and persons who immigrated to the United States at least 11 years ago, report feeling especially close to Africans. Being male was the only significant correlate among African Americans. The findings are discussed in relation to how race, ethnicity and national origin shape personal identities within the U.S. and their significance for intergroup perceptions. These broader issues warrant further consideration in light of assertions that race as a defining feature of American life and intergroup relations is obsolete.
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