TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halter,Marilyn
AU  - Johnson,Violet Showers
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - African and American: West Africans in post-civil rights America 
T2  - Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history
SN  - 9780814789254
AV  - E184.A24 H35 2014
U1  - 305.896/6073 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - West Africans
KW  - United States
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814789254/
ER  -