HAS THE PAST PASSED? ON THE ROLE OF HISTORIC MEMORY IN SHAPING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN AFRICAN AMERICANS AND CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN THE USA

HAS THE PAST PASSED? ON THE ROLE OF HISTORIC MEMORY IN SHAPING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN AFRICAN AMERICANS AND CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN THE USA

African Americans and contemporary African migrants to the USA do not form a single ‘Black community’. Their relations are characterized by simultaneous mutual attraction and repulsion. Based on field evidence, the article discusses the role played in it by the reflection in historic memory and plac...

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Main Author: Dmitri M. Bondarenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) 2015-01-01
Series:Suomen Antropologi
Subjects:
African Americans
African migrants
USA
historic memory
intercultural interaction
mass consciousness
Online Access:https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/59056/20448

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