What’s my original name ? : Changement de nom, transnationalisation et revendications identitaires dans le nationalisme noir états-unien

• Published in: Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
• Main Author: Guedj, Pauline
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Mondes Américains 2010
• Subjects: United States; Akan; Black Nationalism; Name; Transnational networks; ritual practices; nationalisme noir; noms; réseaux transnationaux; États-Unis; rites et rituels; hist; anthro-se; Blanche; Greenland; Retour
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/59182

Since the beginning of the 20th century, name changing has been at the center of conversion processes in many African American religious and political movements. While adopting a new religion, the member of the movement had to renounce his American civil identity and to adopt a new name, seen as his...