Description
Book SynopsisToday, African immigrants constitute a growing and increasingly visible component of the US population. African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race? takes a closer look at the growth of African immigration to the United States in recent decades, as well as implications of this growth. Mamadi Corra highlights several resulting sociodemographic processes underway, including the changing composition of the foreign-born and US Black populations. Corra also takes a closer look at sociodemographic profiles of these “new African Americans” or “new Americans,” highlighting the increasing diversity, yet also the racialized portrait of this group of immigrants. Key patterns discussed include the shifting racial and gender composition of immigrants, with a growing proportion of “Black” and female African immigrants on one hand and a decreasing proportion of “White” and male immigrants on the other hand. The book also compares socioeconomic profiles of African immigrants with other immigrant groups, as well as native-American subgroups. Taken together, Corra discovers that the salience of race that is mediated by gender.
Table of ContentsContents
Chapter 1. Africans in the United States: An Increasingly Visible Immigrant Population
Chapter 2. Patterns of African Immigration to the United States and Sociodemographic Profile
Chapter 3. Immigration and the U.S. Experience: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 4. An Intra-Group Comparison of African Immigrants in the United States: Gendered Variations?
Chapter 5. African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race through International Migration?
Chapter 6. African Immigrants in the United States: A Comparison with Natives
Chapter 7. African Immigrants in the United States: Summary and Concluding Observations
