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History for Lunch - Diversity among the Black Population in the U.S.

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As a result of increased immigration from Africa and the Caribbean, the African American population in the United States is increasingly becoming culturally and socio-economically diverse. Despite this trend, however, the tendency to assume the black population in the U.S. as an undifferentiated group remains. The purpose in this presentation is to provide a temporal comparative examination of the cultural/ethnic, and socioeconomic differences between African Americans, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants; and within immigrants from the African continent.

Professor Kusow is currently Associate professor of Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Iowa State University. His research interests include globalization and transnational migration, the contemporary African diaspora, social transformation and social change in Africa, African immigrants in North America. His most recent work appeared in flagship journals like Symbolic Interaction, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Migration and Ethnic Studies, and in the The New Americans: A Handbook to Immigration Since 1965, edited by Mary Waters and Reed Ueda, Harvard University Press. One of his most recent articles, 'Contesting Stigma: On Goffman's Assumptions of Normative Order,' Symbolic Interaction, 2004 appeared in the top 20 most read articles in Symbolic Interaction from 2005 to 2009. He is Vice Chair of the Somali Studies International Association (SSIA) and served as Vice Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 10th Triennial Somali Studies Conference held at the Ohio State University in 2007. He participated in several international policy forums on Africa sponsored by the United Nations Scientific, Educational, and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Development Program, Italian NGOs, and Aalborg University in Denmark.

For more information about the State Historical Society of Iowa, visit http://www.iowahistory.org.
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