Searching for boxes to check: constructing boundaries of second-generation Indo-Caribbean identity through community initiatives

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-11-02 DOI:10.1080/13504630.2022.2148645

C. Khan

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ABSTRACT This study uses critical ethnography to examine how young community leaders negotiate ethno-racial boundaries through leading initiatives that advocate for an Indo-Caribbean identity in South Richmond Hill, Queens, one of the largest Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Trinidadian communities in the US. The second-generation constructs their own ethnic project by advocating for an Indo-Caribbean identity through leading organizations and initiatives directed specifically towards this group. This complicates their processes of racialization in relation to Afro-Caribbeans and South Asians. Second-generation Indo-Caribbeans who are marginalized by dominant racial categories actively craft their own ethno-racial identity based on shared diasporic experiences and perceived racial advantages and disadvantages in relation to other groups. Community initiatives facilitate these processes while fostering spaces of belonging for the second-generation. At the same time, dominant narratives related to racial hierarchization and differences in the Caribbean and in the US influence how Indo-Caribbeans negotiate their identity separate from a larger Black Caribbean identity.

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寻找复选框：通过社区倡议构建第二代印度-加勒比身份的边界

本研究使用批判性民族志来研究年轻社区领袖如何通过倡导美国最大的印度-圭亚那和印度-特立尼达社区之一的南里士满山的印度-加勒比身份的领导倡议来谈判民族-种族界限。第二代人通过专门针对这一群体的领导组织和倡议，倡导印度-加勒比人的身份，从而构建了他们自己的民族项目。这使他们相对于非洲-加勒比人和南亚人的种族化过程复杂化。被主流种族类别边缘化的第二代印度-加勒比人，基于共同的散居经历和对其他群体的种族优势和劣势的认知，积极地塑造自己的民族-种族身份。社区倡议促进了这些进程，同时为第二代人创造了归属感空间。与此同时，与加勒比地区和美国的种族等级制度和差异有关的主流叙事影响了印裔加勒比人如何从更大的加勒比黑人身份中分离出自己的身份。

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期刊介绍： Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.