Restricted affiliation

The costs of otherness among Afroczechs

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2149472
AutoresStephanie Rudwick (0000-0001-6669-498X, Political Science/African Studies, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czechia, autor correspondente), Angela Nwagbo (Political Science/African Studies, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czechia)
Ano2024
Volume47
Fascículo15
Páginas3259-3279
Data de publicação2024-11-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2024.2303365
OpenAlexW4390949075
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas27

The increasing presence of African diasporic people in Europe and their identity politics have given rise to a proliferation of studies on their experiences, albeit with the exception of central eastern Europe (CEE). This research expands on this scholarship by addressing lived experiences, racialisation processes and struggles to belong among Afropeans in Czechia. Grounded in ethnography the study draws from narrative interviews with self-identified Afroczechs who are closely connected to both their African heritage and their Czechness. We conceptualise their identity politics as Restricted Affiliation in a sense that the state of belonging to Czechia has distinct limits due to the high costs of racial Otherness they experience. The findings demonstrate the limits of a shared language vis-à-vis racial ideologies in Czech national identity constructions and contribute to more visibility and further theorising of Czech blackness

Aesthetics · Czech · Ethnography · Identity (music · Ideology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies