The formation of the African American community in the United States
This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2012.
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10361-24202019-09-29T05:45:06Z The formation of the African American community in the United States Ahmed, Fatema Johera Azim, Firdous Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University English and humanities This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2012. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 121 -128). The literature of the Diaspora is particularly interesting in the contemporary world as more and more people come to find themselves voluntarily or involuntarily displaced. Displacement is the material reality of globalization. Even as there are political reverberations, it is the psychological trauma that forms the basis of my study. This is because each group negotiates with the new social context in a different way. Some groups may look to migration with optimism because of the new life that a new location promises. Other groups like the African slaves were forcefully transported en masse to America, and saw it as the destruction of a way of life for commercial gains. This combined with their economic disenfranchisement to make it difficult to achieve oneness with their new locale. It will be the effort of this paper to focus particularly on the manner in which the African American people regrouped through negotiations with itself and the dominant white population. In order to understand their vulnerabilities and the ways in which they sought to strengthen themselves, I will be looking at a range of texts over a period of time since identity formation is a lengthy process. Although assimilation would be the key to integration, I will be looking at this extent to which this is possible as well as desirable. Fatema Johera Ahmed M. A. in English 2013-05-14T09:00:17Z 2013-05-14T09:00:17Z 2012 2012-12 Thesis ID 10163004 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/2420 en BRAC University thesis reports are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 133 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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