

Self-inflicted wounds: straddling two identities
Offline Thoughts by Nessa Kwizera
S2 · E11
Jun 16, 2024
42:18
Episode notes
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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Keywords
Biases
authenticity
wellbeing
disassociation
Africa
Europe
Asia
power relations
economic development
identity
diaspora
anti-blackness
identity politics
Afro-European
assimilation
respectability politics
Black and British
Black and Irish
Windrush generation
internalised self-hatred