African and American [electronic resource] : West Africans in post-civil rights America / Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson.
Material type: TextSeries: Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : New York University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780814789254
- 0814789250
- 305.896/6073 23
- E184.A24 H35 2014
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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