Identity construction amongst individuals with binational heritage in Africa

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES
A. Darkwah, Geraldine A. Ampah
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ABSTRACT This paper draws on interviews with Africans of binational parental heritage to expand the literature on identity formation in two ways. First, it takes on the factors that shape primary identity formation more fully by extending it beyond the current focus on state constrictures on primary identity formation. We argue in this paper that in addition to state constricture, closeness of family ties is yet another factor that shapes the primary identity of individuals with binationality. Individuals claim the identity of that parent whose extended family members have a cordial relationship with them as evident in communication patterns, visits, presence at rites of passage, and the extent to which extended family members embrace them as one of their own. Second, we interrogate the literature on hybridity beyond its focus on types to highlight the instrumental and intrinsic purposes to which hybridity can be put. We show how individuals with a primary identity would choose a secondary identity for instrumental reasons such as the education or work opportunities it provides. The intrinsic value of secondary identity is the entertainment options and sense of self it provides. This piece, focusing on both the factors that shape primary identity as well as when/for what purpose such individuals choose a secondary identity, highlights the agency of such individuals.
非洲具有双民族遗产的个体之间的身份建构
摘要本文通过对具有双重父母血统的非洲人的采访,从两个方面扩展了关于身份形成的文献。首先,它通过将其扩展到目前对初级身份形成的国家限制之外,更充分地考虑了形成初级身份形成。在本文中,我们认为,除了国家约束之外,家庭关系的紧密性也是塑造具有二元性的个人主要身份的另一个因素。个人声称其大家庭成员与他们有着友好关系的父母的身份,这在沟通模式、访问、出席成人仪式以及大家庭成员将他们视为自己的一员的程度上都很明显。其次,我们在对类型的关注之外,对关于杂交性的文献进行了质疑,以强调杂交性可以达到的工具性和内在目的。我们展示了具有主要身份的个人是如何出于教育或工作机会等工具性原因选择次要身份的。第二身份的内在价值是它提供的娱乐选择和自我意识。这篇文章聚焦于塑造主要身份的因素,以及这些人何时/出于什么目的选择次要身份,强调了这些人的能动性。
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Social Identities
Social Identities ETHNIC STUDIES-
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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.
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