Publication Date
April 2009
Advisor(s)
Ulysse, Gina
Major
African American Studies; Anthropology
Language
English (United States)
Abstract
In this thesis, I draw upon interactions with African Americans living in Ghana as a means to explore some of the many factors that contribute to the acceptance of an African Diasporan identity in popular conceptions of Blackness in the United States. I seek to understand some of the complexities within Black American identites in regard to the formation of diasporan consciousnesses and the development of Pan-Africanist thought. I also explore conceptions of "home" in relation to African Diasporan identity construction and its associations with notions of "return" to a homeland or place of origin.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Amber Nichole, "A Search for Home: Diasporic Constructions, Encounters, and Imaginaries" (2009). Honors Theses - All. Paper 318.
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/318
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