African & American : West Africans in post-civil rights America /

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"African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Halter, Marilyn (Autor), Johnson, Violet Showers (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history
Temas:
West Africans > United States > Social conditions.
West Africans > United States > Ethnic identity.
Africains de l'Ouest > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Africains de l'Ouest > Identité ethnique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Emigration and immigration
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Africa, West > Emigration and immigration.
Afrique occidentale > Émigration et immigration.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration.
West Africa
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: griots from different shores
  • Introduction: the newest African Americans?
  • West Africa and West Africans: imagined communities in Africa and the diaspora
  • Occupational detour: new paths to making a living
  • Capturing a niche: the West African enclave economy
  • Transnational ties/translocal connections: traversing nations, cities, and cultures
  • More than black: resistance and rapprochement
  • Young, gifted, and West African: transnational migrants growing up in America
  • Conclusion: further into the twenty-first century.

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