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From Africa to America : religion and adaptation among Ghanaian immigrants in New York / Moses O. Biney.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion, race, and ethnicityPublication details: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814786413
  • 0814786413
  • 9780814789810
  • 0814789811
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Africa to America.DDC classification:
  • 285/.1089966707471 22
LOC classification:
  • BX9211.N5 P743 2011
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 73.06
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Contents:
Coming to America : Ghanaians and U.S. immigration -- By the Hudson River : the Ghanaian presence in New York -- Remembering the homeland : Ghana and its people -- How shall we sing the Lord's song? PCGNY : an overseas mission -- The compound house : communal life and welfare -- Conflict and cohesion : gender and intergenerational relations -- Ebenezer : spirituality and identity -- Paddling on both sides : analysis and conclusion.
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  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: Upon arrival in the United States, most African immigrants are immediately subsumed under the category "black." In the eyes of most Americans and more so to American legal and social systems African immigrants are indistinguishable from all others, such as those from the Caribbean whose skin color they share. Despite their growing presence in many cities and their active involvement in sectors of American economic, social, and cultural life, we know little about them. In From Africa to America, Moses O. Biney offers a rare full-scale look at an African immigrant congregation, The Presbyterian Church of Ghana in New York (PCGNY). Through personal stories, notes from participant observation, and interviews, Biney explores the complexities of the social, economic, and cultural adaptation of this group
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1020955

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.

Coming to America : Ghanaians and U.S. immigration -- By the Hudson River : the Ghanaian presence in New York -- Remembering the homeland : Ghana and its people -- How shall we sing the Lord's song? PCGNY : an overseas mission -- The compound house : communal life and welfare -- Conflict and cohesion : gender and intergenerational relations -- Ebenezer : spirituality and identity -- Paddling on both sides : analysis and conclusion.

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Upon arrival in the United States, most African immigrants are immediately subsumed under the category "black." In the eyes of most Americans and more so to American legal and social systems African immigrants are indistinguishable from all others, such as those from the Caribbean whose skin color they share. Despite their growing presence in many cities and their active involvement in sectors of American economic, social, and cultural life, we know little about them. In From Africa to America, Moses O. Biney offers a rare full-scale look at an African immigrant congregation, The Presbyterian Church of Ghana in New York (PCGNY). Through personal stories, notes from participant observation, and interviews, Biney explores the complexities of the social, economic, and cultural adaptation of this group