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Hybrid Identities In The Diaspora: Second Generation West Indians In Brooklyn, Bedelia N. Richards
Hybrid Identities In The Diaspora: Second Generation West Indians In Brooklyn, Bedelia N. Richards
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How does ethnic identity manifest among contemporary second-generation West Indian youth? In this essay I argue that the ethnic identities of post-1990s second-generation West Indian youth in Brooklyn are best characterized as “hybrid identities.” Diaspora communities like the one created by West Indian immigrants in Brooklyn provide ideal conditions for the development of hybrid identities, the fusion of two or more cultures coexisting in a single individual (Smith and Leavy, 2008). In addition to the question already posed, this paper will explicate how second-generation West Indian youth experience, make sense of and express the inherent complexity of identities that emerge …