Self-inflicted wounds: straddling two identities

Offline Thoughts por Nessa Kwizera

Notas del episodio

People of colour that are born and raised in European countries face an identity crisis that arises from straddling two identities - they are doomed to neither ever be European enough or to fit in with their origin countries. Is this is a self-inflicted wound? What would it mean to relinquish the desperate desire to be absorbed into European culture and instead embrace our true identities?

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Palabras clave
BiasesauthenticitywellbeingdisassociationAfrica EuropeAsiapower relationseconomic developmentidentitydiasporaanti-blacknessidentity politics Afro-Europeanassimilationrespectability politicsBlack and BritishBlack and IrishWindrush generationinternalised self-hatred