EXPLORING BIRACIAL IDENTITY THROUGH ROOTS TRAVEL FOR AFRICAN DIASPORAS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana Dillette
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Biracial Identity ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Roots Tourism

This auto-ethnography, grounded in my experiences as a biracial, bicultural black woman, is written as an exploration of how identity formation is impacted through travel. It considers my lived experiences with Du Bois’ double consciousness in a traditionally hegemonic society. Using Poston’s (1990) biracial identity development model as a framework for my inquiry, I examine a roots tourism trip to Ghana as a reflection of my lived experiences to demonstrate how the utilization of auto-ethnography as a critical method of inquiry can provide important insights into the intersectionality between roots tourism and identity. Results from this study suggest that exposure to roots travel can be the catalyst for personal internal and external reflection on one’s patterns of behavior and thought about their identity.

Toward Whole-Making: The Power of Voice in the Faith Formation of Black Youth

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Reginald Blount
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Faith Formation ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Human Desire

What is the distinctive character of ministry among African-American youth, and to what particular circumstances should that ministry respond? Proceeding from W. E. B. Du Bois’ description of Black “double consciousness,” this article explores the challenges and hopes for identity formation with African American youth in response to the persistent realities of racism and conflicting cultural forces that impact their senses of self. The author proposes that the Church’s primary responsibility to these youth be informed by theologian Howard Thurman’s notion of “whole-making,” the foundational human desire to be in both interpersonal and intrapersonal community.

Can You Hear Me Now? An Autoethnographic Analysis of Code-Switching

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taryn Kiana Myers
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Black American ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Communication Practice ◽  
Communication Practices

This autoethnography, based on a cultural epistemology grounded in my lived experiences as Black and middle class, is written as an exploration of the communication practice of code-switching. It is the consideration of Du Bois’ double-consciousness as reflected in my language practices. It is a means to examine the development of my Black identity in an aggressively hegemonic society. Using Cross’ Black identity development model to structure and frame my inquiry, I examine my experiences with code-switching in both Black-dominated and White-dominated spaces to understand how the choice to use “Standard English” or Ebonics, depending on audience, reflects the tension inherent in the Black American identity. This autoethnography attempts to draw connections to how the intersection of oppressed identities results in power inequities that shape communication practices for marginalized populations.

What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Identity Formation and DACA

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-299
Author(s):  
Jessica Rosenberg ◽  
Sally Robles ◽  
Marlon O. Agustín-Méndez ◽  
Emma Cathell ◽  
Astrid Casasola
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Transformative Experience ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Adult Identity ◽  
Future Success ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Latinx Youth

This article reports on a qualitative research study that explored the lived experience of seven Latinx DACA recipients. Using narrative inquiry, the study tests the Undocumented Adult Identity Development Model (Robles, 2015), a five-stage identity development model of undocumented Latinx youth. The study gives voice to the hopes, dreams, and challenges these young adults face. Findings revealed that participants demonstrated a high degree of resiliency. Ultimately, participants were able to fashion their struggles into a transformative experience that gave them hope and a positive vison for their future. Success in school and in their career was a means of protesting against the limitations placed upon them. Meaning and purpose was achieved through creating community and by taking ownership of their immigration status, through fighting for their rights and for the rights of other immigrants.

scholarly journals SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Itzigsohn ◽  
Karida Brown
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Sociological Theorist

AbstractIn this paper we emphasize W. E. B. Du Bois’s relevance as a sociological theorist, an aspect of his work that has not received the attention it deserves. We focus specifically on the significance of Du Bois’s theory of Double Consciousness. This theory argues that in a racialized society there is no true communication or recognition between the racializing and the racialized. Furthermore, Du Bois’s theory of Double Consciousness puts racialization at the center of the analysis of self-formation, linking the macro structure of the racialized world with the lived experiences of racialized subjects. We develop our argument in two stages: The first section locates the theory of Double Consciousness within the field of classical sociological theories of the self. We show how the theory addresses gaps in the theorizing of self-formation of James, Mead, and Cooley. The second section presents an analysis of how Du Bois deploys this theory in his phenomenological analysis of the African American experience. The conclusions point out how the theory of Double Consciousness is relevant to contemporary debates in sociological theory.

scholarly journals Yah’s Exemplary Soldiers: African Hebrew Israelites in the Israel Defense Forces

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Esensten
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
State Institution ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
American Scholar ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Mandatory Service ◽  
Israel Defense Forces

This article considers the process of identity formation among soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who were born into the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (AHIJ), more commonly known as the Black Hebrews. The AHIJ are a sect of African Americans who began settling in Israel in 1969 and who identify as direct descendants of the Biblical Israelites. Due to the group’s insular nature, the IDF is the primary state institution in which they fully participate, and their mandatory service is a source of both pride and consternation for community members and leaders. Considering the personal experiences of 14 African Hebrew soldiers who enlisted between 2009 and 2010, the article argues that while the soldiers by and large maintain their distinctive identity during the course of their service, they also internalize some of the language, attitudes, and cultural touchstones of the majority Israeli Jewish population. As a result, they experience a kind of “double consciousness”, the feeling of dislocation first described by the African American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois at the turn of the twentieth century.

Out in Time

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry N. Halkitis
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Sexual Identity Development ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
American Society

The life experiences and sexual identity development of three generations of gay men, the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations, are explored. While there are generational differences in the lived experiences of young gay men shaped by the sociopolitical contexts of the historical epoch in which they emerged into adulthood, and a crisis that has come to define each generation, there also are consistencies across generations and across time in the psychological process of coming out that defines identity formation of gay men, as these individuals transition from a period of sexual identity awareness to sexual identity integration. The life experiences are also shaped by conceptions of hypermasculinity, racism and discrimination, substance use, and adventurous sexuality. Despite the many challenges that have defined the lives of gay men across time and that are informed by the homophobia of American society, the vast majority of the population also has demonstrated resilience and fortitude in achieving both pride and dignity. These ideas are explored through the life narratives of fifteen diverse gay men, across the three generations.

scholarly journals A Scoping Review of Professional Identity Formation in Undergraduate Medical Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Sarraf-Yazdi ◽  
Yao Neng Teo ◽  
Ashley Ern Hui How ◽  
Yao Hao Teo ◽  
Sherill Goh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Professional Identity Formation ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Content Analyses

Abstract Background Professional identity formation (PIF) in medical students is a multifactorial phenomenon, shaped by ways that clinical and non-clinical experiences, expectations and environmental factors merge with individual values, beliefs and obligations. The relationship between students’ evolving professional identity and self-identity or personhood remains ill-defined, making it challenging for medical schools to support PIF systematically and strategically. Primarily, to capture prevailing literature on PIF in medical school education, and secondarily, to ascertain how PIF influences on medical students may be viewed through the lens of the ring theory of personhood (RToP) and to identify ways that medical schools support PIF. Methods A systematic scoping review was conducted using the systematic evidence-based approach. Articles published between 1 January 2000 and 1 July 2020 related to PIF in medical students were searched using PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, ERIC and Scopus. Articles of all study designs (quantitative and qualitative), published or translated into English, were included. Concurrent thematic and directed content analyses were used to evaluate the data. Results A total of 10443 abstracts were identified, 272 full-text articles evaluated, and 76 articles included. Thematic and directed content analyses revealed similar themes and categories as follows: characteristics of PIF in relation to professionalism, role of socialization in PIF, PIF enablers and barriers, and medical school approaches to supporting PIF. Discussion PIF involves iterative construction, deconstruction and inculcation of professional beliefs, values and behaviours into a pre-existent identity. Through the lens of RToP, factors were elucidated that promote or hinder students’ identity development on individual, relational or societal levels. If inadequately or inappropriately supported, enabling factors become barriers to PIF. Medical schools employ an all-encompassing approach to support PIF, illuminating the need for distinct and deliberate longitudinal monitoring and mentoring to foster students’ balanced integration of personal and professional identities over time.

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