Mehdi Charef and theInvention of Beur Writing

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-79
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Kleppinger
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
North African ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Unique Information ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
News Programs

After a brief discussion of political activism in the early 1980s by the descendants of North African immigrants to France, this chapter explores the reception and promotion of Mehdi Charef’s début novel, Le thé au harem d’Archi Ahmed (1983). Charef appeared on several top literary, society, and news programs, and successfully established himself as an insider providing new perspectives on France’s North African immigrant community. To better understand the contours of Charef’s media appearances, the chapter also explores the lack of attention accorded to Nacer Kettane’s Le sourire de Brahim and Leïla Sebbar’s Shérazade, 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts. Kettane promoted his work dogmatically as a political intervention, while Sebbar focused artistic and feminist aspects of her writing. These case studies reveal how Charef successfully positioned himself in a middle ground, as an author who accepted social and political readings of his work but also provided new and unique information on a population that had come to be heavily discussed by journalists and politicians.

scholarly journals The African Immigrant Memory Loss Project: A University-Community Partnership

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 332-332
Author(s):  
Manka Nkimbeng ◽  
Hayley McCarron ◽  
Gabriela Bustamante ◽  
Wynfred Russell ◽  
Tetyana Shippee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Term Care ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Dementia Prevalence

Abstract The few studies on dementia prevalence in immigrant communities show that immigrants from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds have a higher prevalence of dementia compared with their U.S.-born counterparts. However, this body of work is small, resulting in a lack of reliable estimates of dementia prevalence among African immigrants. The AIMLP is a partnership between the African Career, Education, and Resources, Inc. (ACER) and the Families and Long-Term Care Projects (FLTC) of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Guided by an advisory board, the goal of this project is to develop culturally informed instruments, and use these to collect data to identify dementia care needs, knowledge, and resources in the African immigrant community. Study implementation started in August 2019, five advisory board meetings have been convened and 2 pilot focus groups have occurred. Twelve individuals participated in the focus groups. The majority (90%) were from Liberia and 60% were over the age of 55. Two participants currently care for a family member with dementia. Preliminary findings reveal a great need for education on dementia, and general lack of awareness on management, and limited access to services/supports. Focus groups will be finalized in March and the study survey will be developed and administered in the summer. These survey findings will be available and presented at the conference in November 2020. This is the first project to identify the extent of dementia care needs and resources among African immigrants; which will inform interventions for this population.

The Relative Effects of Normative and Instrumental Models of Policing on Police Empowerment: Evidence From a Sample of Sub-Saharan African Immigrants

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. Pryce
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Ghanaian Immigrants ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data

This study examines the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing on willingness to empower the police in a sample of sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United States. Using data from a survey of 304 Ghanaian immigrants, obligation to obey, procedural justice, effectiveness, and gender predicted police empowerment; legitimacy of Ghana police and risk of sanctioning did not. The results also show that obligation to obey may be distinct from legitimacy. The findings from the current study point to the importance of the process-based model of policing in different geopolitical contexts, including the sub-Saharan African immigrant community in the United States. Specifically, obligation to obey and procedural justice play pivotal roles in engendering willingness to empower the police in the sub-Saharan African immigrant community. The implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Longer Residence in the United States is Associated With More Physical Function Limitations in African Immigrant Older Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 073346482097760
Author(s):  
Manka Nkimbeng ◽  
Yvonne Commodore-Mensah ◽  
Jacqueline L. Angel ◽  
Karen Bandeen-Roche ◽  
Roland J. Thorpe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Physical Function ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
High Discrimination ◽  
The Mean

Acculturation and racial discrimination have been independently associated with physical function limitations in immigrant and United States (U.S.)-born populations. This study examined the relationships among acculturation, racial discrimination, and physical function limitations in N = 165 African immigrant older adults using multiple linear regression. The mean age was 62 years ( SD = 8 years), and 61% were female. Older adults who resided in the United States for 10 years or more had more physical function limitations compared with those who resided here for less than 10 years ( b = −2.62, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [–5.01, –0.23]). Compared to lower discrimination, those with high discrimination had more physical function limitations ( b = −2.51, 95% CI = [–4.91, –0.17]), but this was no longer significant after controlling for length of residence and acculturation strategy. Residing in the United States for more than 10 years is associated with poorer physical function. Longitudinal studies with large, diverse samples of African immigrants are needed to confirm these associations.

The humanities meet STEM: Five approaches for humanists

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Math And Science

With STEM education garnering an increasing share of educational budgets and press, humanities teachers should consider how to respond to the growing power of math and science. Should humanists read the writing on the wall and tether themselves to the economic engine of STEM? Or should humanists separate themselves, retreating securely into their own disciplinary homes? Middle ground options, including critique of and partnership with STEM, are available as well. This article lays out five postures or approaches that humanists should weigh as they consider how to proceed. Drawing from various case studies, including medical humanities, digital humanities, and innovative interdisciplinary curricula, the article fleshes out the advantages and limitations of each approach.

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