Jayne O Ifekwunigwe
Biographic Data
| ID | 106519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayne O Ifekwunigwe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayne |
| FAMILY NAME | O Ifekwunigwe |
| SIGNATURE | IFEKWUNIGWE J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5806-3261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Entangled Belongings
Based on auto/biographical and ethnographic narratives and conceptual theories, this essay explores the Global African Diaspora as a racialised space of belonging for African diasporas in the US , the UK , and – more recently – the clandestine migration zones from Africa to southern Europe. Both approaches are used to illustrate the author’s roots, routes, and detours; an interpretive paradigm highlighting the interconnectedness across time and s…
Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics
Controversies over race conceptualizations have been ongoing for centuries and have been shaped, in part, by anthropologists. OBJECTIVE: To assess anthropologists' views on race, genetics, and ancestry. METHODS: In 2012 a broad national survey of anthropologists examined prevailing views on race, ancestry, and genetics. RESULTS: Results demonstrate consensus that there are no human biological races and recognition that race exists as lived social…
A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct
This article assesses anthropological thinking about the race concept and its applications. Drawn from a broader national survey of geneticists' and anthropologists' views on race, in this analysis, we provide a qualitative account of anthropologists' perspectives. We delve deeper than simply asserting that "race is a social construct." Instead, we explore the differential ways in which anthropologists describe and interpret how race is construct…
The difference that transnational and intersectional black feminisms make
In contemporary feminist theories, transnational and intersectional feminisms occupy contested territory. Feminist analyses that are situated exclusively within local and national domains and obscure the lived impact of globalizing economic and political forces also stand on shaky ground. In the following commentary, I will address Tripp's nation-centered framing of difference feminisms in specific and relational geopolitical contexts. By resitua…
Voting with their feet’
This article explores the political, economic, racialized, and moral dimensions of clandestine boat migration from Senegal to the Canary Islands between 2006 and 2011. I begin with a critical interpretation of clandestine boat migrations as a form of gendered protest and as a strategic response to the perceived lack of economic opportunities for young Senegalese men. I continue with a critique of the overlapping and racialized geographies of the …
Scattered Belongings
An Inhospitable Port in the Storm
Recasting ‘Black Venus’ in the new African Diaspora
(An)Other English city
The interpretive turn in urban studies signals a heightened emphasis on the locus of the city as the site for both the making and unmaking of identities and differences. Juxtaposing examples from British popular culture with narrative extracts from my published ethnographic research on `mixed race' family and memory, this article addresses two key problematics associated with this discursive shift. First, I explore the concept of multiethnicity a…
Scattered Belongings
When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a Caublinasian, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created. This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms 'Black' or 'White'. This is a unique and radical study. It interweaves the stories of six women of mixed African/African Caribbean and white European h…
Borderland Feminisms
A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct
This article assesses anthropological thinking about the race concept and its applications. Drawn from a broader national survey of geneticists' and anthropologists' views on race, in this analysis, we provide a qualitative account of anthropologists' perspectives. We delve deeper than simply asserting that "race is a social construct." Instead, we explore the differential ways in which anthropologists describe and interpret how race is construct…
Recasting ‘Black Venus’ in the new African Diaspora
Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics
Controversies over race conceptualizations have been ongoing for centuries and have been shaped, in part, by anthropologists. OBJECTIVE: To assess anthropologists' views on race, genetics, and ancestry. METHODS: In 2012 a broad national survey of anthropologists examined prevailing views on race, ancestry, and genetics. RESULTS: Results demonstrate consensus that there are no human biological races and recognition that race exists as lived social…
Voting with their feet’
This article explores the political, economic, racialized, and moral dimensions of clandestine boat migration from Senegal to the Canary Islands between 2006 and 2011. I begin with a critical interpretation of clandestine boat migrations as a form of gendered protest and as a strategic response to the perceived lack of economic opportunities for young Senegalese men. I continue with a critique of the overlapping and racialized geographies of the …
(An)Other English city
The interpretive turn in urban studies signals a heightened emphasis on the locus of the city as the site for both the making and unmaking of identities and differences. Juxtaposing examples from British popular culture with narrative extracts from my published ethnographic research on `mixed race' family and memory, this article addresses two key problematics associated with this discursive shift. First, I explore the concept of multiethnicity a…
Borderland Feminisms
The difference that transnational and intersectional black feminisms make
In contemporary feminist theories, transnational and intersectional feminisms occupy contested territory. Feminist analyses that are situated exclusively within local and national domains and obscure the lived impact of globalizing economic and political forces also stand on shaky ground. In the following commentary, I will address Tripp's nation-centered framing of difference feminisms in specific and relational geopolitical contexts. By resitua…
Borderland Feminisms
Scattered Belongings
When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a Caublinasian, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created. This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms 'Black' or 'White'. This is a unique and radical study. It interweaves the stories of six women of mixed African/African Caribbean and white European h…
(An)Other English city
The interpretive turn in urban studies signals a heightened emphasis on the locus of the city as the site for both the making and unmaking of identities and differences. Juxtaposing examples from British popular culture with narrative extracts from my published ethnographic research on `mixed race' family and memory, this article addresses two key problematics associated with this discursive shift. First, I explore the concept of multiethnicity a…
Recasting ‘Black Venus’ in the new African Diaspora
An Inhospitable Port in the Storm
Scattered Belongings
Voting with their feet’
This article explores the political, economic, racialized, and moral dimensions of clandestine boat migration from Senegal to the Canary Islands between 2006 and 2011. I begin with a critical interpretation of clandestine boat migrations as a form of gendered protest and as a strategic response to the perceived lack of economic opportunities for young Senegalese men. I continue with a critique of the overlapping and racialized geographies of the …
The difference that transnational and intersectional black feminisms make
In contemporary feminist theories, transnational and intersectional feminisms occupy contested territory. Feminist analyses that are situated exclusively within local and national domains and obscure the lived impact of globalizing economic and political forces also stand on shaky ground. In the following commentary, I will address Tripp's nation-centered framing of difference feminisms in specific and relational geopolitical contexts. By resitua…
Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics
Controversies over race conceptualizations have been ongoing for centuries and have been shaped, in part, by anthropologists. OBJECTIVE: To assess anthropologists' views on race, genetics, and ancestry. METHODS: In 2012 a broad national survey of anthropologists examined prevailing views on race, ancestry, and genetics. RESULTS: Results demonstrate consensus that there are no human biological races and recognition that race exists as lived social…
A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct
This article assesses anthropological thinking about the race concept and its applications. Drawn from a broader national survey of geneticists' and anthropologists' views on race, in this analysis, we provide a qualitative account of anthropologists' perspectives. We delve deeper than simply asserting that "race is a social construct." Instead, we explore the differential ways in which anthropologists describe and interpret how race is construct…
Entangled Belongings
Based on auto/biographical and ethnographic narratives and conceptual theories, this essay explores the Global African Diaspora as a racialised space of belonging for African diasporas in the US , the UK , and – more recently – the clandestine migration zones from Africa to southern Europe. Both approaches are used to illustrate the author’s roots, routes, and detours; an interpretive paradigm highlighting the interconnectedness across time and s…
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Law (3 works)