Section 1: Changing the Paradigms on Migration and Immigration in the African Diaspora

Introduction: Being Black and “Bicultural”

Chapter 1: (Re)igniting Pan-Africanism. (Re)jecting Afropolitanism. (Re)naming our solution by Nenelwa Tomi

Chapter 2: Is Race Really the Issue? Examining the Fallacy of "Black Foreigner Privilege” by Tolu Odunsi

Section 2: Perspectives on Black Transnationalism and Identity Formation

Chapter 3: The Evolution of a Bicultural Identity, in the Shadows of Nyerere’s Pan Africanism Msia Kibona Clark

Chapter 4: Skins, Identity and Their Tragedies: The Learning and Healing of a Hispanoguinean Woman in the Diaspora by Carolina Nve Diaz

Chapter 5: When I First Wore Fish Leather, Or Black Girl in Iceland by Sharony Green

Chapter 6: Reinventing Identities: Crossing Borders of Values and Beliefs in Noviolet Bulawayo's in We Need New Names by Afua Ansong

Poem 1: Poem Death upon the Homefront by Shingi Mavima

Section 3: Crioulo Culture and Pidgin Music: American Experiences & West African Identities

Chapter 7: Navigating Between Two Worlds: (Re)Defining My Identity in the Context of an All Girls Elite Private School by Terza Lima-Neves

Chapter 8: Having My Kenkey and Eating It, Too: Being Black and Bicultural by Margaret Salifu

Chapter 9: Music of my Flesh: African Music, Cultural Affirmation, and the Production of Social Space in the Diaspora by Nana Afua Y. Brantuo

Chapter 10: Local Accra With a Twist of International Luxe by Zoë Gadegbeku

Section 4: Diverse Identities and Representations among 2nd Generation Ethiopian Migrants in America

Chapter 11: Ethiopia on My Skin, Black Power in My Heart: How Growing Up Black and Multi-Ethnic Has Taught Me to Navigate Different Forms of Anti-Blackness by Yelena Bailey

Chapter 12: Black Immigrant Communities: Misrepresented and Underserved in the U.S. by Mekdela Ejigu

Chapter 13: Identity Theft by Semien Abay

Section 5: Class and Citizenship: African American and African Migrant Experiences in South Africa

Chapter 14: On being African...American by Gabriel Peoples

Chapter 15: Culturally Fluid: Experiences of a Ugandan, South African by Sayuni Brown

Chapter 16: Migration, Language, Race and Identity in South Africa: Analysing Congolese Links by Eugene Bope

Chapter 17: The Realities of the Diaspora Life in France and South Africa by Tafadzwa Zvobgo

Section 6: Two Intersecting Diasporas: Caribbean and African American Communities in America

Chapter 18: Migration, Immigration, & Gender: Afro-Caribbean Experiences from a Bicultural Socialization Perspective by Shelvia English, Dayne Hutchinson, Kat J. Stephens

Chapter 19: The Meaning of Blackness by Cassandra J. St. Vil

Chapter 20: Being Black and Bicultural: Racial and Ethnic Identity Formation of Haitian Americans in Chicago by Courtney Cain

Chapter 21: Always Remember Black is Beautiful: A Narrative on Being Afro-Trinidadian in the United States by Keisha V. Thompson

Poem 2: American Double Toasted Banana Nut Bread by Maurisa Li-A-Ping

Section 7: The Relationships Between Color & Race in Afro Latinx Identities

Chapter 22: Call Me Survivor: AfroLatina Diasporic Identity, Survival, and a Tale of Two Negritudes by Omilani Alarcón and Indhira Serrano

Chapter 23: Rhythm of Life: Reggae and Antillean Black Identity by Ryan Mann-Hamilton

Chapter 24: Afro-Latinidad: Being a Black Latino by Anthony Polanco

Chapter 25: Identity as Profession: on Becoming an African American Panamanian Afro-Latina Anthropologist Curator by Ariana A. Curtis

Chapter 26: Between Blackness & Africanness: Indexing Puerto Rican identity through discourse by Krista L. Cortes