African and American
Halter, Marilyn.
African and American West Africans in post-civil rights America / [electronic resource] : Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson. - New York : New York University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814789254 0814789250
West Africans--Ethnic identity.--United States
West Africans--Social conditions.--United States
Africa, West--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
E184.A24 / H35 2014
305.896/6073
African and American West Africans in post-civil rights America / [electronic resource] : Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson. - New York : New York University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814789254 0814789250
West Africans--Ethnic identity.--United States
West Africans--Social conditions.--United States
Africa, West--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
E184.A24 / H35 2014
305.896/6073