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Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrantsAfrican & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West Africanimmigrants 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 highlight the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the evolving global ties with Africa and Europe, and the translocal connections among the West African enclaves in the United States.Drawing on a rich variety of sources, including original interviews, personal narratives, cultural and historical analysis, and documentary and demographic evidence, African & American explores issues of cultural identity formation and socioeconomic incorporation among this new West African diaspora. Bringing the experiences of those of recent African ancestry from the periphery to the center of current debates in the fields of immigration, ethnic, and African American studies, Halter and Johnson examine the impact this community has had on the changing meaning of “African Americanness” and address the provocative question of whether West African immigrants are, indeed, becoming the newest African Americans.

West Africans --- Africans, West --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Africa, West --- United States --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- Emigration and immigration. --- Immigration

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Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging and Civil Rights examines the construction of blackness within shifting post-civil rights, post-colonial and neo-colonial contexts. It examines understudied locations and protagonists, and it articulates the necessarily ambiguous aspirations, goals, protest rationales and strategies associated with the reclamation of agency and the affirmation of self. In this volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or other southern "bulwarks" of the civil rights movement; and diverse Africans in France and Afro-descended Chileans illustrate the many-faceted struggle for recognition and belonging. The essays assembled in Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles are salient and timely. The volume helps to contextualize the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. By critically reading and connecting different Black experiences in various global regions, cultures, and communities, this volume pushes beyond the usual case studies of the American Civil Rights struggle. In doing so, it offers fresh perspectives on familiar concepts such as activism and belonging, suggesting more innovative approaches for the study of African diasporic experience in the 21st century.

Black people --- Social conditions. --- Blacks --- Charleston, South Carolina --- black diaspora --- Civil Rights --- African American Theatre --- Mobility, Belonging and Activism in the Atlantic World --- Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane --- Black struggle --- Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century --- Afro-Chilean --- Diaspora --- Global Identities, Black Nationalism --- Black Identities --- Blackness --- Black --- Calixthe Beyala's Le Petit Prince de Belleville --- Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette --- displacement --- identity, struggle and belonging --- Afro-Chilean Activism at the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America --- 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago's Northern Suburbs --- La Métrople --- Black activism --- La Métropole