Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging

Benjamin Maiangwa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Prior to joining Lakehead University, he was Teaching Fellow in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA), Durham University, UK. He was also instructor at the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology (MITT). Maiangwa's research focuses broadly on the intersection of politics, culture, and society. His publications and outreach activities use storytelling, action research, and critical ethnography to explore notions of contested belonging, home, mobility, and people's experiences of conflict and peace.

• 1. The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race, and Belonging - Benjamin Maiangwa.- Part I. Part I Identity, Coloniality, and Home.- 2. Can We Forgo Our Attachments to Socially Constructed Identities? - Sabena Singh3. On Names, Labels, and Colonial Amnesia - Christiane Ndedi Essombe.- 4. The Unresolved Crisis of Belonging in African Literature: A Reflection - Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba.- 5. Being and Becoming “African” in the Postcolony - Benjamin Maiangwa and Christiane Ndedi Essombe.- Part II Diaspora, Race, and Immigration.- 6. Notes on the Nervous Condition of Black and African Immigrants in Canada - Ademola Adesola.- 7. The Geo-cultural Politics of Space and the Poetics of Race - Dominic James Aboi.- 8. Exiting Whiteness and Patriarchy: Embracing Oneness, Breaking Free of Incarcerating Ideologies, and Enabling Pathways to Belonging - Chuck Egerton.- Part III Belonging: Cross-cutting Issues.- 9. Migrant Women’s (Non)Belonging in Pandemic Times: An Intersectional Analysis of Home/Land - Anoosh Soltani and Holly Thorpe.- 10. How Social Enterprise Can Facilitate the Inclusion of Highly Skilled Newcomers to Canada - Ireoluwatomi Oloke.- 11. Racialized Skilled Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market - Alka Kumar.- 12. On Blackness and Related Subjects: Concluding Conversation - Ademola Adesola, Adey Mohamed, Christiane Ndedi Essombe, and Benjamin Maiangwa.- Spider Web and Dew Drops - Laure Paquette.