From Biafra to police brutality
Challenging localized Blackness toward globally racialized ethnicities of Nigerians in the U.S
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2148153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chinwe Ezinna Oriji (Wesleyan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1600-1617 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2019.1649441 |
| OpenAlex | W2967804312 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article reveals how Nigerians in the U.S. negotiate their multiple forms of Black racialization. They incorporate both local and global social scripts within their intersected subjectivities as part of the following communities: Black American, Black immigrant, and post-independence Black African (Nigerian). I use a historically-informed ethnography of Nigerian middle-class communities in Houston, Texas to convey the distinct but overlapping sociohistorical realities that makeup definitions of Blackness for my interlocutors. I argue that Nigerians in Houston, Texas embody global intersecting modalities of Blackness where race and ethnicity are interconnected, existing within a global frame, and grounded in contemporary Nigeria. I demonstrate how "localized Blackness" as a politics of solidarity confines race and Blackness to the U.S., which limits post-independence Nigerians' racialized reality. This article moves from police brutality to U.S. anti-Black immigration laws and the Nigeria-Biafra war (genocide) to help us think about racialization globally and across time and space
Criminology · Ethnic group · Immigration · Independence (probability theory · Nigerians · Police brutality · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Race, History, and American Society
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Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa
There isn’t one way to be black
Brutal expropriation, environmental racism and racial capitalism in Nigeria
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I'm Not Habesha, I'm Oromo
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Physics of Blackness
Beyond Expectations
Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy
Impossible Subjects
Physics of Blackness
Black Identities
Black Immigrants in the United States and the "Cultural Narratives" of Ethnicity
Crosscurrents
Will the Model Minority Please Identify Itself
No necessary tradeoff
Race and Ethnicity or Racialized Ethnicities
Imperialism and Underdevelopment in Nigeria
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Globalized anti-blackness
Afropolitan projects
Being black, foreign and woman
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |