African & American

West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

Bibliographic Data

ID19970754
AuthorsMarilyn Halter (0000-0001-6636-0621), Violet Showers Johnson
Year2016
Pages352
Publication date2016-04-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAfrican and American (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9780814760581.001.0001
OpenAlexW4256200387
Open LibraryOL28540799M
ISBN9780814760581
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This book tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants 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, the book highlights 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. The book 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, the book examines the impact this community has had on the changing meaning of “African Americanness” and addresses the provocative question of whether West African immigrants are becoming the newest African Americans

Colonialism · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music) · Immigration · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Africa · Africans · emigration and immigration · Ethnic identity · Social conditions · united states · West Africans

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