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For Children of African Immigrants
The Identity Between Two Worlds You Did Not Choose
You have been translating yourself for two audiences your whole life.
For the second-generation child of African immigrants working through what it means to be raised in America by parents who are deeply African — navigating the gap between African family culture and American social culture
The Name It First Experience
You grew up too American for your parents and too African for your peers. This workbook names the specific in-between — the gap between African family culture and American social culture — and builds an identity that does not require you to choose. The output is Your Second-Gen African American Charter — a stress-tested and signed identity document written entirely for you.
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Sample questions
- What do you understand about your family's journey that you couldn't fully appreciate when you were younger?
- What does thriving look like for you — and how do your two worlds fit into that?
- What part of your heritage — African, American, or both — do you feel most drawn to right now?
- What has growing up between two cultures given you that you wouldn't trade away?
Research basis
Suarez-Orozco on children of immigrants / Portes and Rumbaut on second-generation adaptation / Phinney on bicultural identity development
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