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Upon walking U.S. inner-city streets you sooner or later come upon
groups of black kids wearing prison-style outfits; there is a boom
box, and rap music. And inevitably you will hear the N-word. Upon
entering a district housing migrants in any European city you will
encounter almost identical scenes - youngsters dressed in prison
style, the boom box, rap. Only most of the kids are of a "white" or
olive complexion. They call themselves "Wiggers," "white Niggers"
or "Black albinos." It was this "Wigger" metaphor, with its
implications of a transnational response to uprootedness and
racialized exclusion that inspired CAAR to invite African American
researchers working among inner city black youth and European and
Israeli migration scholars to a symposium of trans-cultural and -
national orientation called "Crossing Boundaries." We placed the
study of African American youth - and thus a native though
marginalized American population - next to research on migrant
youth in Western Europe. The essays gathered here hope to
contribute to an understanding on how to address the myriad
challenges that both the youth and the countries in which they live
must confront.
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