Research Catalog

Title

African minorities in the New World / edited by Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi.

Publication

New York : Routledge, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Falola, Toyin.
• Afolabi, Niyi.

Description

x, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

African studies

Uniform Title

African studies (Routledge (Firm))

Subject

• Africans > America > Social conditions
• Black people > America > Social conditions
• Immigrants > America > Social conditions
• Africans > America > Ethnic identity
• Citizenship > America
• Refugees > Government policy > America
• African diaspora
• America > Emigration and immigration
• Africa > Emigration and immigration
• America > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Voluntarily singing the Lord's song... / Toyin Falola & Niyi Afolabi -- Nationalist myth-making, cultural identity, and nation building; African minorities in the U.S. and Latin America / Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o -- African immigrants' experiences in urban America: religion and the construction of social identity in St. Louis / Attah Anthony Agbail -- Ethnography of religion and spirituality among St. Louisan African immigrants / Attah Anthony Agbail -- 'Born in the USA': dislocation, disrupted kinship networks, and the transformative power of music and dance in African immigrant baby naming ceremonies / Sherri Canon -- A viagem da minha vida--the voyage of my life: identifying formation and resettlement among Angolan women of color in Toronto / Robert A. Kennedy -- The making of a modern diaspora: the resettlement process of the Somali Bantu refugees in the United States / Omar A. Eno and Mogamed Eno -- Voluntary trans-Atlantic migration: the Nigerians' attitude to the American visa lottery / Elizabeth Augustus and Preston Augustus -- Managing the migration of health-care workers toward the transfer of knowledge, skill and professionalism / Oladapo Augustus -- African immigrants' families and the American educational system / Cecilia S. OBeng -- The new African diaspora waves: shifting diversity of American culture.

Call Number

Sc E 07-1137

ISBN

• 0415960924
• 9780415960922

LCCN

2007018149

OCLC

131062925

Title

African minorities in the New World / edited by Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, c2008.

Series

African studies

African studies (Routledge (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Added Author

Falola, Toyin.

Afolabi, Niyi.

Research Call Number

Sc E 07-1137