Ethnic identity and homeland politics in the Oromo diaspora
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation, I address the mismatch between how scholars employ ethnoracial categories in studies of race, ethnicity, and immigration and how individuals make sense of their identity on the ground, in their day-to-day lives. Using the case of Oromo immigrants from Ethiopia, I show how scholarship on immigration and identity can be improved by attending to subnational ethnic diversity, which allows for greater analytical clarity by teasing apart the distinctions between race, ethnicity, and nation and their relationship to one another. In undertaking this effort, I show how a shift in our level of analysis can make visible a deeper, more nuanced understanding of race/ethnicity and its import in social cohesion, conflict, and immigrant integration. This dissertation highlights the importance of attending to subnational ethnic diversity in two important ways. First, I show how the conventional use of Ethiopia(n) as a category of analysis does not align with my respondents' lived experience of Oromo as a category of practice. When studied as Oromo immigrants rather than Ethiopian immigrants, my respondents show how Blackness as an identity and lived experience transcends the U.S. context to include understandings of Blackness also situated in the homeland context via a shared experience of minority subjugation. Second, my treatment of Oromo immigrants as a unique subset of Ethiopian immigrants demonstrates how notions of indigeneity are as central to the formation and salience of Oromo identity as are notions of Blackness. That Blackness and indigeneity are more intimately linked than scholars have often understood them to be opens the door for a more serious engagement with Black indigeneity as a topic of inquiry.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Guluma, Beka Moera |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Saperstein, Aliya |
| Thesis advisor | Saperstein, Aliya |
| Thesis advisor | Asad, Asad |
| Thesis advisor | Jimenez, Tomas |
| Degree committee member | Asad, Asad |
| Degree committee member | Jimenez, Tomas |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Beka Guluma. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sv920tk1627 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Beka Moera Guluma
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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