African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

by Violet Showers Johnson and Marilyn Halter

Book Overview

Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrants

African & American 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. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814760708
• ISBN13: 9780814760703
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"