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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halter, Marilyn
Other Authors: Johnson, Violet Showers
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:Nation of nations.
Subjects:
West Africans > United States > Social conditions.
West Africans > United States > Ethnic identity.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Africa, West > Emigration and immigration.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.