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This dissertation employs an ethnographic methodological approach. It explores young people's performance of a New Afrikan subjectivity, their negotiation of a multiple consciousness (American, African-American, New Afrikan and Pan-Afrikan) and the social and cultural implications for rearing children of African descent in the US within a New Afrikan ideology. Young people who are members of the New Afrikan Scouts, attendees of Camp Pumziko and/or students enrolled at Kilombo Academic and Cultural Institute were observed and interviewed. Through interviews young people shared their perceptions and experiences of New Afrikan childhood. The findings of this study discuss the ways in which agency, conformity and the spaces in between are enacted and experienced by New Afrikan children. The findings particularly reveal that in one sense New Afrikan adults aid young people in examining their racial and cultural subjectivity in US America. In another sense New Afrikan adults manipulate young people into performing prescribed roles that are seemingly uncritical of the implications of these performances beyond an adult agenda.
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- Performing New Afrikan childhood: agency, conformity, and the spaces in between
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- Sunni-Ali, Asantewa (Author)
- Etheridge Woodson, Stephani (Thesis advisor)
- Davis, Olga (Committee member)
- Saldana, Johnny (Committee member)
- Underiner, Tamara (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2014
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- thesisPartial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2014
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 128-132)
- Field of study: Theater
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by Asantewa Sunni-Ali