African Minorities in the New World (African Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415540844 ISBN 13: 9780415540841

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and accomplishments―from academic, to business, to even scientific inventions. The demographic shift is both welcome news as well as a matter for concern given the consequences of displacement and the paradoxes of exile in the new location. By its very connection to the ‘Old African Diaspora,’ the notion of a ‘New African Diaspora’ marks a clear indication of a historical progression reconnecting continental Africa with the New World without the stigma of slavery. Yet, the notion of trans-Atlantic slavery is never erased when the African diaspora is mentioned whether in the old or new world. Within this paradoxical dispensation, the new African diaspora must be conceived as the aftermath of a global migration crisis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415540844
• ISBN 13: 9780415540841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Falola Toyin, Afolabi Niyi