TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halter,Marilyn
AU  - Johnson,Violet Showers
TI  - African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America 
T2  - Nation of Nations
SN  - 9780814760581
AV  - E184.A24 H35 2016
U1  - 305.8966073 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - West Africans
KW  - United States
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrantsAfrican & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West Africanimmigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson highlight the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the evolving global ties with Africa and Europe, and the translocal connections among the West African enclaves in the United States.Drawing on a rich variety of sources, including original interviews, personal narratives, cultural and historical analysis, and documentary and demographic evidence, African & American explores issues of cultural identity formation and socioeconomic incorporation among this new West African diaspora. Bringing the experiences of those of recent African ancestry from the periphery to the center of current debates in the fields of immigration, ethnic, and African American studies, Halter and Johnson examine the impact this community has had on the changing meaning of "African Americanness" and address the provocative question of whether West African immigrants are, indeed, becoming the newest African Americans
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814789254
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814789254/original
ER  -