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Author Smith, Maya Angela, author.

Title Senegal abroad : linguistic borders, racial formations, and diasporic imaginaries / Maya Angela Smith.

Publication Info. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 249 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Africa and the diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : understanding global Senegalese identity formation through language and movement -- What's language got to go with it? : Language attitudes and identity formation -- Speaking while black : the quest for legitimacy in exclusionary spaces -- Neither here nor there : reflections on national and transnational belonging -- Leveraging language : multilingualism and transnational identity formation.
Summary This book captures the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York as they make sense of who they are and how they fit into their local communities, into the countries where they live, and into the larger global Senegalese diaspora. Importantly, it is not only what the interviewees say that conveys certain understandings of self and environment. It is also how they speak - the particular ways in which they switch between languages and structure their discourse - that shapes their identities.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Senegalese -- Foreign countries.
Senegalese.
Foreign countries.
Senegalese -- Language.
Senegalese -- Race identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9780299320539 (electronic book)
0299320537 (electronic book)
9780299320508
0299320502