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Loading... Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest (A Samuel and Althea Stroum Boo)by Sandra M. Chait
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A good analysis of the conflicts between the African ethnic groups that they have carried over with them after immigrating here. Tribal, clan, language or simple notions of national identity keep people from recognizing their commonality and are the bane of inter-group cooperation even in their diaspora, surviving in an alien country. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa, the northeastern corner of the continent, has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities, with their children as class-mates in school. In many ways, they are successfully navigating life in their new home; however, they continue to struggle to bridge old ethnic divisions and find salaam, or peace, with one another. News from home fuels historical grievances and perpetuates tensions within their communities, delaying acculturation, undermining attempts at reconciliation, and sabotaging the opportunity to reach the American Dream. In conversations with forty East African immigrants living in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, Sandra Chait captures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documents how some individuals have been able to transcend the ghosts from the past and extend a tentative hand to their former enemies. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.8009795Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism General Biography And History North America West Coast U.S.LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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