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ORCID

0009-0003-7212-327X

Keywords

Racialized Hierarchies, Stratified Blackness, Black Diaspora, Black Diasporic Dynamics, Anti-Blackness, Communal Responsibility, Diasporic Accountability, Internationalization

Special Issue

Special Issue Summer 2026

Abstract

Our duoethnographic inquiry, grounded in Intersectionality, addresses the following questions: How do intersectionality and internationalization complicate Black diasporic dynamics within the United States? What communal responsibilities do Black international/immigrant people hold toward Black American people within the U.S. academy? Through critical engagement with three previously published poems, we foreground the communal responsibility that arises at the hands of internationalization and unpack the intertwined realities of anti-Blackness, racialized hierarchies, and diasporic dynamics. Our findings unmask three themes: (1) evolving understandings of race across transnational contexts, (2) Black intraracial stratification, and (3) taking up responsibility. We conclude by urging a (re)commitment to diasporic (re)connection and accountability.

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