- Additional Authors
- Johnson, Violet Showers.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history
- Uniform Title
- African & American (Online)
- Alternative Title
- African & American (Online)
- African and American
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Preface: 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.
- LCCN
- 2014011581
- OCLC
- ssj0001288121
- Author
Halter, Marilyn.
- Title
African & American [electronic resource] : West Africans in post-civil rights America / Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson.
- Imprint
New York : New York University Press, 2014.
- Series
Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Johnson, Violet Showers.