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Book SynopsisSince 1990 more Africans have 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. This collection of essays looks at the immigrant experience.
Trade Review. . . engaging, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging . . . Highly recommended.July 2010
* Choice *
The New African Diaspora captures one of the intellectual passions of a scholar with wide knowledge and expertise in African oral literatures who has maintained a consistent appreciation for and understanding of the aesthetic and material production of African peoples in the African Diaspora: this has to be acknowledged, recognized, and applauded.
* African Studies Review *
[The] authors provide a window onto the challenges these new immigrants face in leaving their homes and adapting to their new host environments, as well as the contributions they have made, particularly in the arts.23.3 2010
* Journal of Refugee Studies *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Part 1. Overviews
1. Introduction: Can We "Go Home Again"?
Isidore Okpewho
2. Diaspora Dialogues: Engagements Between Africa and Its Diasporas
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Part 2. Leaving Home
3. Togo on My Mind
Adzele K. Jones
4. "I, Too, Want to Be a Big Man": The Making of a Haitian "Boat People"
Georges E. Fouron
5. Africa's Migration Brain Drain: Factors Contributing to the Mass Emigration of Africa's Elite to the West
Amadu Jacky Kaba
Part 3. Relocation and Redefinition
6. "The West Is Cold": Experiences of Ghanaian Performers in England and the United States
James Burns
7. Migration and Bereavement: How Ghanaian Migrants Cope in the United Kingdom
Helen Anin-Boateng
8. Acculturation and the Health of Black Immigrants in the United States
Florence M. Margai
9. Socio-Legal Barriers to the Full Citizenship of Recent African Immigrants in Canada: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
10. 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
11. Immigrants and the American System of Justice: Perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks
John A. Arthur
12. Africans Abroad: Comparative Perspectives on America's Post-Colonial Africans
Baffour K. Takyi
13. Questions of Identity Among African Immigrants in America
Msia Kibona Clark
Part 4. A Measure of Success
14. Immigration and African Diaspora Women Artists
Nkiru Nzegwu
15. Emerging Communities: The Religious Life of New African Immigrants in the United States
Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani
16. The Orisha Rescue Mission
Donald Cosentino
17. Redefining "Africa" in the Diaspora with New Media Technologies
Azuka Nzegwu
Part 5. Transnational Perspectives
18. Resisting "Race": Organizing African Transnational Identities in the United States
Jill M. Humphries
19. African Video, Film Cinema, and Cultural Repackaging in the Diaspora
Folu F. Ogundimu
20. Excess Luggage: Nigerian Films and the World of Immigrants
Akin Adesokan
21. From the New Diaspora and the Continent: African American Return Figurations
Joseph McLaren
22. 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
23. Language, Memory, and the Transnational: Art of Wosene Worke Kosrof
Andrea E. Frohne
24. Out Beyond Our Borders: Literary Travelers of the TransDiaspora
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
25. The Guyana Diaspora and Homeland Conflict Resolution
Perry Mars
26. The Ontological Imperative for the New African Diaspora
Adeolu Ademoyo
List of Contributors
Index
