Table of Contents:
  • Nations represented by African immigrants in this book
  • Series foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: a historical and theoretical overview
  • Origins: where we are from
  • Opportunity: why and how we came
  • Struggles and successes
  • Connecting and contributing to two continents
  • Family and identity in the United States
  • Transnationality in the present and future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: suggested oral history interview segments for listening
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.