African and American [electronic resource] : West Africans in post-civil rights America / Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson.

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.

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