Get Ready to Be Confused: Understanding the Effects of Racialization on African International Students' Identity

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research in Progress Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Race, Politics, and Identity for International Students in Postsecondary Education (Table 12)

Abstract

This proposal focuses on the racialization of international Black African collegians (IBAC) and the effects it has on their identity. I specifically look at how IBAC came to understand the idea of "intercentricity", namely that US society is stratified by race first. I argue that IBAC are pre-socialized to race and Blackness in unique ways before arriving to the US and their racial identity formation follows a different trajectory than Black US Americans (BUSA). Five themes are presented in addition to implications for the field of higher education.

Author

• Ashley Watson, University of Minnesota
  Presenting Author