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African & American : West Africans in post-civil rights America / Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson.
LIBRA E184.A24 H35 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halter, Marilyn, author.
- Johnson, Violet Showers, author.
- Series:
- Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history.
- Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West Africans--United States--Social conditions.
- West Africans.
- West Africans--United States--Ethnic identity.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Ethnicity.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Africa, West--Emigration and immigration.
- Africa, West.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- African and American
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814760581
- 0814760589
- 9780814760703
- 0814760708
- OCLC:
- 874835562
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