User:Tobyadeo/sandbox

We too are black
African immigrants in the united states of America are constantly removed/ignored from discourses surrounding race/ethnicity topics. "For African immigrants, the concept of race is complex, befuddling, and often requires the development of new types of verstehen or knowledge". Most of This exclusion is due to African-Americans seeing their culture as the standard of blackness. "Becoming black for African youth meant learning Black English which, in turn, meant becoming black. In this sense, blackness becomes a code, a language, a set of cloths, a hair-do, a bodily expression, and above all an experiential memory." Blackness comes in various shades and cultures.