{"id":55382,"date":"2017-12-05T22:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55382"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:07:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:07:47","slug":"national-identity-citizenship-and-belonging-afro-descendants-in-spain-and-catalonia-agnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55382","title":{"rendered":"National Identity, Citizenship, and Belonging: Afro-descendants in Spain and Catalonia \u2013 Agnes"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Identity, Citizenship, and Belonging: Afro-descendants in Spain and Catalonia \u2013 Agnes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe<\/a>
\n2017-10-27<\/p>\n

Abena Wariebi<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second excerpt from interviews taken from a Master\u2019s thesis carried out by Abena Wariebi at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Entitled \u201cNational Identity, Citizenship, and Belonging: Afro-descendants in Spain and Catalonia\u201d, the thesis is an investigation of black identities in Barcelona, specifically exploring what it means to be black and Spanish, or black and Catalan.<\/em><\/p>\n

These interviews represent a small part of the black community in Barcelona. This thesis is in no way conclusive or overall encompassing. It does not represent the views or opinions of all Afro-descendants in Barcelona or Spain<\/a>. Nevertheless, these accounts are powerful, enriching, and demonstrate the unquestionable solidarity that exists within the diaspora.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Name: Agnes<\/strong>
\nAge: 20<\/strong>
\nProfession: Teacher and Photographer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAgnes, teacher and photographer<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI think my mum is the only person in the world who thinks I\u2019m Spanish. Because when I go out on the street, when like a policeman comes and they see my passport or whatever they keep asking \u2018oh but where are you from? This says Spain; this says you were born in Barcelona<\/a> but where are you from? Where is your dad from? Where is your mum from? So, I feel like, I don\u2019t want to be Spanish.<\/p>\n

I really feel like I\u2019m Cameroonian. And in a way my dad always tried to raise me to feel like I\u2019m not Spanish, I\u2019m Cameroonian.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think my mum is the only person in the world who thinks I\u2019m Spanish. Because when I go out on the street, when like a policeman comes and they see my passport or whatever they keep asking \u2018oh but where are you from? This says Spain; this says you were born in Barcelona but where are you from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,28,8],"tags":[27844,17846,892,27834,27833],"class_list":["post-55382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-europe","category-media-archive","tag-abena-wariebi","tag-afropean","tag-spain","tag-the-afropean","tag-the-afropean-adventures-in-afro-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55383,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382\/revisions\/55383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}