{"product_id":"the-new-african-diaspora-paperback-softback-9780253220950","title":"The New African Diaspora (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253220950","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe New African Diaspora\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsidore Okpewho (Edited by), Nkiru Nzegwu (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253220950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 August 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e544 pages, 18 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm, 0.753 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe New African Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e is a follow-up to Okpewho, Carole Davies, and Ali Mazrui's edited collection The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (CH, Feb'00, 37-3466). The latter volume concentrated on the forced migrations of Africans to the Americas; the present volume investigates the more recent—and more voluminous and voluntary—migrations of Africans. Editors Okpewho and Nzegwu are renowned African scholars based in the US (SUNY Binghamton), and the overwhelming majority of the contributions examine the immigration of various groups of Africans to the US. There are a few exceptions. One essay, for example, looks at the experiences of Haitian 'boat people,' and another focuses on the ways in which Ghanaian migrants in the UK cope with bereavement. The 26 essays are organized into five sections. In the first section ('Overviews'), Okpewho and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza theorize 'diaspora' and examine (the sometimes tense) 'diaspora dialogues.' Summing Up: Highly recommended... All levels\/libraries. —Choice\"—A. Ejikeme, Trinity University, July 2010\u003cbr\u003e \". . . engaging, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging . . . Highly recommended.July 2010\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[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\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Refugee Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Capacious in its thematic and disciplinary breadth of coverage of this issue.\"—Tejumola Olaniyan, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Provocative, powerful, and prescient, coming right in time to be a guide to an entirely new discourse on the African diaspora.\"—Molefi Asante, \u003ci\u003eTemple University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily 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, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Overviews\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: Can We \"Go Home Again\"?\u003cbr\u003e Isidore Okpewho\u003cbr\u003e 2. Diaspora Dialogues: Engagements Between Africa and Its Diasporas\u003cbr\u003e Paul Tiyambe Zeleza\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Leaving Home\u003cbr\u003e 3. Togo on My Mind\u003cbr\u003e Adzele K. Jones\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"I, Too, Want to Be a Big Man\": The Making of a Haitian \"Boat People\"\u003cbr\u003e Georges E. Fouron\u003cbr\u003e 5. Africa's Migration Brain Drain: Factors Contributing to the Mass Emigration of Africa's Elite to the West\u003cbr\u003e Amadu Jacky Kaba\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Relocation and Redefinition\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"The West Is Cold\": Experiences of Ghanaian Performers in England and the United States\u003cbr\u003e James Burns\u003cbr\u003e 7. Migration and Bereavement: How Ghanaian Migrants Cope in the United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e Helen Anin-Boateng\u003cbr\u003e 8. Acculturation and the Health of Black Immigrants in the United States\u003cbr\u003e Florence M. Margai\u003cbr\u003e 9. Socio-Legal Barriers to the Full Citizenship of Recent African Immigrants in Canada: Some Preliminary Thoughts\u003cbr\u003e Obiora Chinedu Okafor\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Effects of Immigration and Refugee Policies on Africans in the United States: From the Civil Rights Movement to the War on Terrorism\u003cbr\u003e Cassandra R. Veney\u003cbr\u003e 11. Immigrants and the American System of Justice: Perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks\u003cbr\u003e John A. Arthur\u003cbr\u003e 12. Africans Abroad: Comparative Perspectives on America's Post-Colonial Africans\u003cbr\u003e Baffour K. Takyi\u003cbr\u003e 13. Questions of Identity Among African Immigrants in America\u003cbr\u003e Msia Kibona Clark\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. A Measure of Success\u003cbr\u003e 14. Immigration and African Diaspora Women Artists\u003cbr\u003e Nkiru Nzegwu\u003cbr\u003e 15. Emerging Communities: The Religious Life of New African Immigrants in the United States\u003cbr\u003e Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Orisha Rescue Mission\u003cbr\u003e Donald Cosentino\u003cbr\u003e 17. Redefining \"Africa\" in the Diaspora with New Media Technologies\u003cbr\u003e Azuka Nzegwu\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. Transnational Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e 18. Resisting \"Race\": Organizing African Transnational Identities in the United States\u003cbr\u003e Jill M. Humphries\u003cbr\u003e 19. African Video, Film Cinema, and Cultural Repackaging in the Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e Folu F. Ogundimu\u003cbr\u003e 20. Excess Luggage: Nigerian Films and the World of Immigrants\u003cbr\u003e Akin Adesokan\u003cbr\u003e 21. From the New Diaspora and the Continent: African American Return Figurations\u003cbr\u003e Joseph McLaren\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e F. Odun Balogun\u003cbr\u003e 23. Language, Memory, and the Transnational: Art of Wosene Worke Kosrof\u003cbr\u003e Andrea E. Frohne\u003cbr\u003e 24. Out Beyond Our Borders: Literary Travelers of the TransDiaspora\u003cbr\u003e Sandra Jackson-Opoku\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Guyana Diaspora and Homeland Conflict Resolution\u003cbr\u003e Perry Mars\u003cbr\u003e 26. The Ontological Imperative for the New African Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e Adeolu Ademoyo\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743374930200,"sku":"9780253220950","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-new-african-diaspora-paperback-softback-9780253220950","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}