African and Black Diaspora
Volume 12, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 156-170

Gauging panethnicity: affirmative action, African Americans, and children of black immigrants (Article)

Imoagene O.*
  • a Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

This article examines second generation Nigerian adults’ attitudes to affirmative action and whether black immigrants and their children should be beneficiaries of the policy to gauge their panethnic levels and notions of linked fate with African Americans. I find evidence of panethnic developments based on shared racial status and experiences of discrimination. However, this panethnic identity exists alongside emerging class based affinities with middle class Black Americans. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Author Keywords

Nigerian African affirmative action Identity black linked fate panethnicity second generation

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85059314954&doi=10.1080%2f17528631.2018.1559790&partnerID=40&md5=cd95eef2bfd3f53bd8c8e4b42fa76ec0
DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1559790
ISSN: 17528631
Original Language: English