In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah we can follow how Ifemelu, a Nigerian woman, undergoes several changes after traveling to the US. Facing racism in American white dominant society generates the formation of Ifemelu’s new cultural identity. After arriving to the US Ifemelu observes her American friends and family members to imitate their behavior, in order to successfully assimilate into American society. During this transitional period, Ifemelu is not conscious and also ignorant of what happens to the identities of Black people in a white supremacist state: people of color are associated with a collective Black identity to which many negative stereotypes are attached. However, in order to minimize exclusion from society, she conforms to the expectations of white people: she straightens her hair and changes her Nigerian accent to an American one. In the process of her identity development her immigrant status plays a crucial role, as Ifemelu’s experiences as a member of the new African diaspora are different from the experiences of the descendants of slaves. However, the changes inflicted upon Ifemelu’s identity imprison her, so later she rejects the American accent and straight hair and starts her blog about the problem of race in the US, where she touches upon the issues of becoming Black, how it feels to be a racial minority, how different discriminatory categories are overlapping and are woven into the lives of Black people and she gives her readers a glimpse into the multiply disadvantageous situation of women of color.