African Minorities in the New World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Falola, Toyin; Afolabi, Niyi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and accomplishments-from academic, to business, to even scientific inventions. The demographic shift is both welcome news as well as a matter for concern given the consequences of displacement and the paradoxes of exile in the new location. By its very connection to the 'Old African Diaspora,' the notion of a 'New African Diaspora' marks a clear indication of a historical progression reconnecting continental Africa with the New World without the stigma of slavery. Yet, the notion of trans-Atlantic slavery is never erased when the African diaspora is mentioned whether in the old or new world. Within this paradoxical dispensation, the new African diaspora must be conceived as the aftermath of a global migration crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135900700
• Artikelnr.: 38255930

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Voluntarily Singing the Lord's Song... Part 1: Negotiating
Citizenship and Cultural Identities 2. Nationalist Myth-Making, Cultural
Identity and Nation Building: African Minorities in the U.S. and Latin
America 3. African Immigrants' Experiences in Urban America: Religion and
the Construction of Social Identity in St. Louis 4. Ethnography of Religion
and Spirituality Among St. Louisan African Immigrants 5. 'Born in the USA':
Dislocation, Disrupted Kinship Networks, and the Transformative Power of
Music and Dance in African Immigrant Baby Naming Ceremonies 6. A Viagem da
Minha Vida/The Voyage of My Life: Identity Formation and Resettlement among
Angolan Women of Color in Toronto Part 2: African Refugees and Policy
Implications 7. The Making of a Modern Diaspora: The Resettlement Process
of the Somali Bantu Refugees in the United States 8. Voluntary
Trans-Atlantic Migration: The Nigerians' Attitudes to the American Visa
Lottery 9. Managing the Migration of Health-Care Workers toward the
Transfer of Knowledge, Skill and Professionalism 10. African Immigrants'
Families and the American Educational System. Conclusion: The New African
Diaspora Waves: Shifting Diversity of American Culture