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
Autores principales: Halter, Marilyn (Autor), Johnson, Violet Showers (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Emigration and immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Africains de l'Ouest > Identite ethnique > États-Unis.
Africains de l'Ouest > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
West Africans > United States > Ethnic identity.
West Africans > United States > Social conditions.
United States.
West Africa.
Afrique occidentale > Émigration et immigration.
Africa, West > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
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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