African & American by Marilyn Halter
Tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years.-
Feeling Italian
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Immigration and American Popular Culture
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Framed by War
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The Slums of Aspen
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Social Death
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The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
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Returns of War
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Girlhood in the Borderlands
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From Arrival to Incorporation
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Transnational Adoption
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Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
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Global Families
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Islam Is a Foreign Country
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Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
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Entitled to Nothing
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Rough Writing
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Love and Empire
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Citizens of Asian America
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Arab America
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Race for Citizenship
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Constructing Black Selves
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The Third Asiatic Invasion
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Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
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The Force of Domesticity
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Who's Your Paddy?
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Whiteness on the Border
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From the Land of Shadows
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The New Immigrant Whiteness
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Migrant Imaginaries
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Soft Soil, Black Grapes
"Halter and Johnson build complex imagery of the transnational immigrant experience of West Africans since the 1960s" (Choice) "African & American gives a valuable and much-needed voice to the African immigrant experience in America. Focusing on the divide between what it means to be an African and an American, Halter and Johnson reveal the historical complexity around these terms and how newcomers grapple with this reality in the contemporary world." (Zain Abdullah, author of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem) "Africans are among both the first Americans, brought here in slavery long before the nation was created, and the most recent Americans, arriving in appreciable numbers in the last few decades. Halter and Johnson bring together these threads of history, offering a rich and unique contribution to the literature on immigration and race relations. A terrific book." (Mary C. Waters, author of Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities) "This book contributes to a growing field of books on African immigrants to the United States This book is relevant for study and courses in diaspora, Africana, and African American history and studies." (Journal of American History)
Marilyn Halter is Professor of History and American Studies at Boston University and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. She is the author of Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 and Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity.
Violet Showers Johnson is Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780814760581 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814760589 |
| Title | African & American |
| Author | Marilyn Halter |
| Series | Nation Of Nations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| Year published | 2014-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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