Rootlessness and Unbelonging

Lace M. Jackson ()

Chapter Chapter 5 in Global Majority Leadership, 2024, pp 67-76 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on a specific group of Global Majority leaders and the deep and fundamental questioning Afro-Caribbean descendants born in the UK have concerning their identity and place of belonging attached to their perceived 'rootlessness.’ 'Rootlessness' seems important and most evident in the discourse of first-generation children born in the UK descended from the Windrush generation and those second-generation children born in the 80s. 'Rootlessness' means lacking identity, a place of unbelonging or being displaced and being unable to identify a location of reference as a cultural or physical place of belonging or home. A Black historian, Charles Seifert, considered that the lack of knowledge about one's history leaves people feeling 'like a tree without roots' (Seifert in Black like Vanilla. Retrieved from Featured quote From Charles Seifert, Author of “The Negro’s or Ethiopian’s Contribution to Art”: http://blacklikevanilla.com/featured-quote-by-charles-seifert-author-of-the-negros-or-ethiopians-contribution-to-art/ , 1938). Understanding the need for a place of belonging is vital for leadership, as it gives some insight into the perceived lack of stability and belonging from which Global Majority people feel they can enact leadership.

Keywords: Unbelonging; Rootlessness; Identity; Afro-Caribbean; Windrush; Disconnection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58464-0_5

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