African minorities in the New World / edited by Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2008], ©2008.
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| Series: | African studies (Routledge (Firm))
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| Physical Description: | x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
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.