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Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Elisa Joy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
Temas:
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions.
African diaspora.
Black people > France > Paris > Social conditions.
Black people > Ireland > Dublin > Social conditions.
Noirs américains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Conditions sociales.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
Personnes noires > France > Paris > Conditions sociales.
Personnes noires > Irlande > Dublin > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Race relations
African Americans > Social conditions
African diaspora
Black people > Social conditions
Dublin (Ireland) > Race relations.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
Paris (France) > Race relations.
France > Paris
Ireland > Dublin
Louisiana > New Orleans
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events-the deportations of Nigerian.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (355 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253001283
0253001285
1280696486
9781280696480
0253001153
9780253001153
9786613673442
6613673447

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