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020 _a9780814789254
020 _a0814789250
020 _z9780814760581 (cl : alk. paper)
020 _z9780814760703 (pb : alk. paper)
020 _z0814760589
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aE184.A24
_bH35 2014
082 0 0 _a305.896/6073
_223
100 1 _aHalter, Marilyn.
245 1 0 _aAfrican and American
_h[electronic resource] :
_bWest Africans in post-civil rights America /
_cMarilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson.
260 _aNew York :
_bNew York University Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490 0 _aNation of nations: immigrant history as American history
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPreface: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aWest Africans
_zUnited States
_xEthnic identity.
650 0 _aWest Africans
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aAfrica, West
_xEmigration and immigration.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xEmigration and immigration.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aJohnson, Violet Showers.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814789254/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c31484
_d31484