African American and Black Caribbean feelings of closeness to Africans
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African American and Black Caribbean relations dominate research on interactions across black ethnic divides. Using National Survey of American Life data, we explore a different aspect of black interethnic attitudes: how close these groups feel toward Africans. African Americans and Black Caribbeans were largely similar in their feelings of closeness to Africans. For Black Caribbeans, younger and male respondents, those reporting higher levels of financial strain, living in the northeast and persons who immigrated to the United States at least 11 years ago, report feeling especially close to Africans. Being male was the only significant correlate among African Americans. The findings are discussed in relation to how race, ethnicity and national origin shape personal identities within the U.S. and their significance for intergroup perceptions. These broader issues warrant further consideration in light of assertions that race as a defining feature of American life and intergroup relations is obsolete.
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Black African immigrants show a relative lack of interest in engaging in the discourse of racism.
“Several studies on cross-black relationships have underscored this relative lack of interest of Black African immigrants to engage in the thorny discourse of racism (see Thelamour and Mwangi 2021; Thornton et al. 2017; AlexAssensoh 2009).”
From Conceptualizing the Differences in the Perception and Internalization of Racism Between Black African Immigrants and African Americans in the United States (2025) · cites this paper as Thornton et al. 2017
The Abstract says the study examines how African Americans and Black Caribbeans feel toward Africans, not African immigrants’ willingness to discuss racism. Searches for African immigrants’ engagement with racism found passages on racial identity and discrimination, but none addressing the claimed lack of interest. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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Mohammed, Z. (2025) · Genealogy · doi:10.3390/genealogy9040127
“Several studies on cross-black relationships have underscored this relative lack of interest of Black African immigrants to engage in the thorny discourse of racism (see Thelamour and Mwangi 2021; Thornton et al. 2017; Alex-Assensoh 2009).”
- Authors
- Thornton, M. C., Taylor, R. J., Chatters, L. M., & Forsythe-Brown, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Ivy Forsythe-Brown, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, USA
- Corresponding author
- Taylor, Robert Joseph
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- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-07-13
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 493-512
- ISSN
- 1070-289X (ISSN-L)
- 1547-3384
- PMC
- PMC5606333
- OpenAlex
- W2472375932
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 4.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Identities (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R25-GM05864)
- National Institute on Aging (P30-AG15281)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Keywords
- African Americans, Black Caribbean, intergroup attitudes, race and ethnicity, national origin, gender differences, financial stress, personal identity, intergroup perception
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