The Construction of a Segmented Hybrid Identity Among One-and-a-Half-Generation and Second-Generation Indo-Caribbean and African Caribbean Canadians

Plaza, Dwaine

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“…This has led to the use of concepts such as Bhybridity^to refer to the blended identities, and cultural practices of immigrants and immigrant-origin ethnic minorities (Hall 1997;Hall and Jefferson 2006), Btransnationalism^as a way that immigrants and their descendants retain relationships and identities with the countries and societies from which they came (Satzewich and Wong 2006), and identity Bshifting^ (Plaza 2006;Basok 2002) as a way of conceptualizing how individuals' self-presentation differs depending on context by drawing on two or more social-ethnic backgrounds. These terms and related perspectives focus in on ethno-social identity and values, issues of particular importance to the integration outcome specified in the acculturation framework.…”

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confidence: 99%

Not Boxed In: Acculturation and Ethno-Social Identities of Central American Male Youth in Toronto

Poteet

Simmons

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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This paper examines the acculturation process of male Central Americanorigin youths in Toronto, a group who are known to have a higher than average risk of dropping out of high school. Using data from semi-structured interviews with a small sample of male youths born in the region or born in Canada to parents from the region, we examine interrelated and shifting friendship patterns, ethno-social identities, and aspirations for schooling. The findings reveal that some youths become marginalized with weak friendship networks, diffuse ethno-social identities and low school completion aspirations, while others develop relatively strong affiliations exclusively with co-ethnic friends who have modest school completion goals. The strongest trend was toward being integrated with a mix of co-ethnic friends and those from other backgrounds, hybrid ethno-social identities, and higher schooling goals. The analysis examines whether the youths are aware of the relationships between social belonging and academic belonging, and whether they feel it possible to escape from being Bboxed in^to acculturation patterns associated with poor school completion. These findings add to research on efforts to understand and improve schooling outcomes for Bat risk^minority youth in a multicultural city.

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Not Boxed In: Acculturation and Ethno-Social Identities of Central American Male Youth in Toronto

Poteet

Simmons

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…Other research on Indo‐Caribbeans in the U.S. and Canada explore factors that influence their acculturation and adaptation patterns (Clément, Singh, & Gaudet, ; Sills & Chowthi, ), how they seek cultural and political recognition (Premdas, ), their self‐representations in media (Tanikella, ), how physical appearance and closeness to the dominant group influence identity development (Plaza, ), and transnational connections between Indo‐Caribbean diasporas in Canada and the U.S. (Trotz, ). Across the literature, a key tension that is addressed by researchers is how Indo‐Caribbeans navigate identifying with dominant racial categories, falling outside of hegemonic conceptions of both what is considered “Indian” and “Caribbean.” Returning to our definitions of hybridity as a refusal of racial purisms and essentialized notions of identity and culture, Indo‐Caribbean identity has been understood in the literature as a traveling identity, multi‐rooted, and at times, contradictory.…”

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(Re)theorizing hybridity for the study of identity and difference

Balaram

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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This paper revisits the construct of hybridity as conceptualized in postcolonial theory and its application within and beyond the field of critical social psychology. Hybridity emerged in postcolonial theory as an alternative to racial/racist purisms, questioning “natural” and complete definitions of identity and instead suggesting movement and mediation as central to identity‐making. The objectives of this paper are twofold: First, I trace the genealogy of hybridity discourse from its origins as a critique of cultural imperialism, to its explicit and implicit invocations serving projects of assimilation and nation‐building. Second, building on the work of critical race scholars, critical social psychologists, and Caribbean feminist scholars who emphasize the role of power in the production of difference, I anchor my analysis of the malleability of hybridity in traveling notions of Indo‐Caribbean identity from the Caribbean region to the U.S. More broadly, I illuminate the tensions involved in reclaiming multiple notions of origin and organizing transnational commitments.

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“…The assertion of identity is thus equivalent to defining a principle of discrimination against "others" and building a border that expands and contracts, weakens and strengthens. In regards to identity, hybridity relates to these strategies in expanding and crossing the ethnic borders by volition and agency (Dhingra 2007, Plaza 2006, also creating a new hybrid culture, creativity and cultural imagination (Lo 2002).…”

Section: Findings Of Field Research: Hybrid Identities and Relations mentioning

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Identities in Transition: Hybridism amongst Second Generation Greek Migrants

Pelliccia¹

2016

AJMS

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The principal originality of this article lies in the analysis on ethnicity and identity in an under-explored geographical/ethnic context, that is the Greek second generation in Italy. Through a field research, the article analyses second generation Greek migrants' process of identity construction, highlighting the emergence of a network of multiple and hybrid belongings as well as a combination of identities and dialectical positions. The field research findings show that hybrid belongings contradict the idea of cultural purity by revealing that all cultures are hybrid all along. In fact, self-representation and self-identification of the Greek second generation challenge traditional paradigms of ethnicity entailing a reworking of pre-existing hybridity rather than any simple combination of Italian and Greek identities. Another key argument that emerged from this fieldwork is the importance of the specific context, positions and conditions in which hybridity operates.

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The Construction of a Segmented Hybrid Identity Among One-and-a-Half-Generation and Second-Generation Indo-Caribbean and African Caribbean Canadians

Cited by 25 publications

References 17 publications

Not Boxed In: Acculturation and Ethno-Social Identities of Central American Male Youth in Toronto

Not Boxed In: Acculturation and Ethno-Social Identities of Central American Male Youth in Toronto

(Re)theorizing hybridity for the study of identity and difference

Identities in Transition: Hybridism amongst Second Generation Greek Migrants

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