"Where Are You From?": Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver, (Paperback)

<p>Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Black. In this context, African-Canadians are both hyper-visible as Black, and invisible as distinct communities. Informed by feminist and critical race theories, and based on interviews with women and men who grew up in Vancouver, <i>\"Where Are You</i> <i>From?\" </i>recounts the unique experience of growing up in a place where the second generation seldom sees other people who look like them, and yet are inundated with popular representations of Blackness from the United States.</p><br><p>This study explores how the second generation in Vancouver redefine their African identities to distinguish themselves from African-Americans, while continuing to experience considerable everyday racism that challenges belonging as Canadians. As a result, some members of the second generation reject, and others strongly assert, a Canadian identity.</p>

• "Where Are You From?": Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver, (Paperback)
• Author: University of Toronto Press
• ISBN: 9781487524562
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2019-12-12
• Page Count: 216