The new African diaspora / edited by Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu.
Okpewho, Isidore, editor.; Nzegwu, Nkiru, editor.
2009
DT16.5 .N495 2009eb
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Title The new African diaspora / edited by Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu.
ISBN 9780253003362 (electronic book)
0253003369 (electronic book)
1282293389
9781282293380
9780253353375
0253353378
9780253220950
0253220955
Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 531 pages) : illustrations
Call Number DT16.5 .N495 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896
Summary "The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora."--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Okpewho, Isidore, editor.
Nzegwu, Nkiru, editor.
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Introduction : can we "go home again"? / Isidore Okpewho
Diaspora dialogues : engagements between Africa and its diasporas / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Togo on my mind / Adzele K. Jones
"I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people" / Georges E. Fouron
Africa's migration brain drain : factors contributing to the mass emigration of Africa's elite to the West / Amadu Jacky Kaba
"The West is cold" : experiences of Ghanaian performers in England and the United States / James Burns
Migration and bereavement : how Ghanaian migrants cope in the United Kingdom / Helen Anin-Boateng
Acculturation and the health of black immigrants in the United States / Florence M. Margai
Socio-legal barriers to the full citizenship of recent African immigrants in Canada : some preliminary thoughts / Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The effects of immigration and refugee policies on Africans in the United States : from the civil rights movement to the war on terrorism / Cassandra R. Veney
Immigrants and the American system of justice : perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks / John A. Arthur
Africans abroad : comparative perspectives on America's postcolonial West Africans / Baffour K. Takyi
Questions of identity among African immigrants in America / Msia Kibona Clark
Resisting "race" : organizing African transnational identities in the United States / Jill M. Humphries
Immigration and African diaspora women artists / Nkiru Nzegwu
Emerging communities : the religious life of new African immigrants in the United States / Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani
The Orisha rescue mission / Donald Cosentino
Redefining "Africa" in the diaspora with new media technologies : the making of AfricaResource.com / Azuka Nzegwu
African video, film cinema, and cultural repackaging in the diaspora / Folu F. Ogundimu
Excess luggage : Nigerian films and the world of immigrants / Akin Adesokan
From the new diaspora and the continent : African American return figurations / Joseph McLaren
Self, place, and identity in two generations of West African immigrant women memoirs : Emecheta's Head above water and Danquah's Willow weep for me / F. Odun Balogun
Language, memory, and the transnational : art of Wosene Worke Kosrof / Andrea E. Frohne
Out beyond our borders : literary travelers of the TransDiaspora / Sandra Jackson-Opoku
The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution / Perry Mars
The ontological imperative for the new African diaspora / Adeolu Ademoyo.

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