Research Catalog

Title

The African diaspora in Canada : negotiating identity & belonging / edited by Wisdom J. Tettey & Korbla P. Puplampu.

Publication

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Puplampu, Korbla P.
• Tettey, Wisdom

Description

xii, 235 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"With transnational migration reaching unprecedented levels in Canada, the need for new trajectories of intercultural understanding and minority-relevant policy has never been greater. To date, few books have been written that effectively focus on the issues, challenges, and experiences of continental Africans in Canada. Addressing this significant gap in the literature, The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging weaves together the cultural, political, and social lives of African-Canadians to consider how they negotiate their space, place, and identities as Canadians. Through an interdisciplinary approach, these essays provide readings of how the social structures of Canada and of the respective countries of origin--including their ethnicity, ancestry, and lineage--interact to shape the identities, expectations, and aspirations of African Canadians."--GoogleBooks

Series Statement

Africa, missing voices series ; no. 2

Uniform Title

Africa, missing voices series no. 2.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Africa > Emigration and immigration
• Africains > Canada > Conditions sociales
• Africains > Canada > Identité ethnique
• African diaspora
• Africans > Canada > Ethnic identity
• Africans > Canada > Social conditions
• Africans > Canada
• Black Canadians > Race identity
• Black Canadians > Social conditions
• Black people > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century
• Black people > Canada > Social conditions
• Black people > Race identity > Canada
• Canada > Emigration and immigration
• Canada > Race relations
• Immigrants > Canada
• Noirs > Canada > Conditions sociales
• Noirs > Canada > Identité ethnique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Continental Africans in Canada / Wisdom J. Tettey & Korbla P. Puplampu -- Ethnicity & the identity of African-Canadians / Korbla P. Puplampu & Wisdom J. Tettey -- Reflections on the long struggle for inclusion / Ali A. Abdi -- Africa(ns) in the Canadian education system / Henry M. Codjoe -- Racism in Canadian contexts / George S. Dei -- African immigrants & the labour market / Samuel A. Laryea & John E. Hayfron -- The gender dimensions of the immigrant experience / Adenike O. Yesufu -- Border crossings and home-diaspora linkages among African-Canadians / Wisdom J. Tettey & Korbla P. Puplampu -- Between home & exile / Martha K. Kumsa -- In search of identity / Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika and Denise L. Spitzer.

ISBN

• 1552381757 (pbk.) :
• 9781552381755

OCLC

62087262

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library