Gillian Creese

"Where Are You From?"

Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver

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Produktbeschreibung

How do children of immigrants from countries in sub-Saharan Africa negotiate multiple identities as Black, as African, and as Canadian?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781487506797
• ISBN-10: 1487506791
• Artikelnr.: 58292837

Autorenporträt

Gillian Creese is the associate dean of Arts, Faculty & Equity, and professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Imagined Communities, Discourses of Blackness, and the New African
Diaspora in Vancouver
3. "No one looked like me": Remembering Migration and Early Childhood
4. "Cool Black guys" and Girls "trying to feel good in your own skin":
Navigating Adolescence
5. "More of my friends are Black": Adult Friendships and Romantic
Relationships
6. "I have so much more opportunities": Education and Career Goals
7. Living "under a microscope": Navigating Public Spaces
8. "People still ask me where I’m from": Belonging and Identity
9. Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and
Place
References
Index