Immigrant Hierarchies and White Supremacy: Race and Representation among East African Immigrant Muslims

Autor/in	Abdi, Nimo M.
Titel	Immigrant Hierarchies and White Supremacy: Race and Representation among East African Immigrant Muslims
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 33 (2020) 2, S.274-284 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Abdi, Nimo M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2019.1681542
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Muslims; Whites; History; Blacks; African Culture; Racial Identification; Race; Power Structure; Ethnography; Social Justice; Political Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Cultural Background; Ethnicity; Racial Attitudes; Phenomenology; Tribes; North Americans; Social Systems; Social Class; Somalia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Muslim; Muslimin; White; Weißer; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Black person; Schwarzer; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnografie; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ausland; Ethnizität; Rassenfrage; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Tribal society; Stammesgesellschaft; Social system; Soziales System; Social classes; Soziale Klasse
Abstract	In this essay, I argue that Somali identities exist within a long history of immigrant aspirations toward what scholars call "whiteness" and their resistance to being identified within identities associated with Blackness. There are two main frames of my argument. First, I show that Somali-Americans' resistance to Blackness seems to be informed by intricate anti-Black racial understandings rooted in Somali society. Secondly, I argue that the tendency for Somalis to de-identify as Black denies them access to claim Blackness as a response to white anti-Black oppression. By using two autoethnographic incidents, I theorize that at least one aspect of Somali identity is continuously fleeing from Black identity and attempting to gain access to something to which bodies with Black skin have not had access - whiteness. This has implications for Somali-Americans navigating social justice in Trump-era and beyond. (As Provided).
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