ABSTRACT African-Americans, who are descendants of slaves forcibly brought from Africa to America hundreds of years ago, and contemporary voluntary African migrants to the USA do not form a single ‘black community’. This statement contradicts the claims of many Black Nationalist movements from the nineteenth century onwards, which argued that all black people are ‘brothers and sisters’ because they share common spirituality and have a common cause that demands their joint action all around the world. However, based on evidence collected in seven states in 2013–2015, African-Americans and contemporary African migrants appear to have different historic memories of pre-slave trade and pre-colonial Africa. Furthermore, the two groups identify different events as key to its history. Many members of both groups do not feel that they share a common ‘black history’. To some extent, the idea of a shared history acts to unite Africans and African-Americans as victims of long-lasting white domination. However, in the final analysis, the collective historic memory of both groups works more to separate them from each other by generating and supporting contradictory or even negative images of mutual perception. In general, the relations between African-Americans and recent African migrants are characterized by simultaneous mutual attraction and repulsion of two magnets. While they understand that among all ethno-racial communities in the country, they, as well as African Caribbeans, are the closest to each other, myriads of differences cause mutual repulsion. This attraction–repulsion effect is, in significant part, due to the differences in historic memory of African-Americans and recent African migrants in the USA.

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从美国黑人和非洲移民的历史意识看奴隶贸易和殖民前非洲

摘要几百年前被强迫从非洲带到美国的奴隶的后裔的非洲裔美国人，以及当代自愿向美国移民的非洲移民，并未构成一个单一的“黑人社区”。该说法与19世纪以后的许多黑人民族主义运动的主张相矛盾，后者声称所有黑人都是“兄弟姐妹”，因为他们有着共同的灵性，并且有共同的原因要求全世界共同采取行动。但是，根据2013-2015年在七个州收集的证据，非裔美国人和当代非洲移民似乎对奴隶贸易和殖民前非洲有不同的历史记忆。此外，这两个小组将不同的事件确定为其历史的关键。两组的许多成员都不认为他们有共同的“黑人历史”。在某种程度上，共同历史的思想使非洲人和非裔美国人成为长期白人统治的受害者。但是，归根结底，这两组人的集体历史记忆通过产生并支持相互感知甚至相互矛盾甚至消极的形象，使他们彼此分开。总的来说，非裔美国人与新近非洲移民之间的关系的特征是两个磁铁同时相互吸引和排斥。尽管他们了解到该国所有种族种族社区之间以及非洲加勒比海地区彼此之间最接近，但无数种差异导致相互排斥。这种吸引-排斥作用在很大程度上是