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Beyond expectations : second-generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain / Onoso Imoagene.

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In Beyond Expectations, Onoso Imoagene delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. She argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of ""black"" identity that differs radically from African American and Blac...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Imoagene, Onoso, 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Nigerians > United States > Social conditions.
Nigerians > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Children of immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Children of immigrants > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Children of immigrants > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the context : immigration, assimilation versus racialization, and the African and Nigerian diasporas in Britain and America
  • "You are not like me!?" : the impact of intra-racial distinctions and inter-ethnic relations on identity formation
  • "It's un-Nigerian not to go to college" : education as an ethnic boundary
  • Forging a diasporic Nigerian ethnicity in the United States and Britain
  • On the horns of racialization : middle class, ethnic, and black
  • Feeling American in America, not feeling British in Britain.

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