Invisible Sojourners

Invisible Sojourners
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Publisher : Praeger
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015049479465
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Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Invisible Sojourners by : John A. Arthur

Examines the growth of the African immigrant population in the United States.

Invisible Sojourners

Invisible Sojourners
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9780313000591
ISBN-13 : 031300059X
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Invisible Sojourners by : John A. Arthur

Arthur documents the role that Africa's best and brightest play in the new migration of population from less developed countries to the United States. He highlights how Africans negotiate and forge relationships among themselves and with the members of the host society. Multiple aspects of the African immigrants' social world, family patterns, labor force participation, and formation of cultural identities are also examined. He lays out the long term aspirations of the immigrants within the context of the geo-political, economic, and social conditions in Africa. Ultimately, Arthur explains why people leave Africa, what they encounter, their interactions with the host society, and their attitudes about American social institutions. He also provides information about the social changes and policies that African countries need to adopt to stem the tide, or even reverse, the African brain drain. A detailed analysis for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with African and immigration studies and contemporary American society.

Erasing Invisibility, Inequity and Social Injustice of Africans in the Diaspora and the Continent

Erasing Invisibility, Inequity and Social Injustice of Africans in the Diaspora and the Continent
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781527504165
ISBN-13 : 1527504166
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Erasing Invisibility, Inequity and Social Injustice of Africans in the Diaspora and the Continent by : Peter Otiato Ojiambo

This volume engages the reader in understanding past and contemporary critical issues in African scholarship, both in the diaspora and on the continent, that have been marginalized, unexamined, and under-researched, and proposes ways to make them visible. The book is timely as it imagines and reimagines scholarship on Africans in the diaspora and on the continent. It is bold, and authentically unpacks African immigrants’ individual and collective cultural, educational, social, and institutional experiences, especially in the context of US Pk-12 schools as they navigate and negotiate transnational spaces regarding identity and shifting positionalities. The editors and contributors, who are themselves African immigrants, exemplify their spirits of Sankofa as they look back to their roots in order to give back to their “Motherland” by fighting for the visibility, equity and social justice of Africans in the diaspora and on the continent. The book proposes critical and insightful ideas that educators, researchers, policy makers, social and human services, and community leaders will find valuable.

Neighborhood Transformation

Neighborhood Transformation
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 124
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ISBN-10 : 9781666788945
ISBN-13 : 1666788945
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Neighborhood Transformation by : Olusegun Solomon Osineye

Neighborhood Transformation is a Christian reimagination of compassionate ministry through the application of the practice of biblical hospitality. This book advocates the creation of community outreach programs focused on emotional support, legal support, and spiritual refuge for undocumented African immigrants. Linking the theological and biblical vision for neighborhood transformation with the philosophical framework of community building, it considers the meaning of community within the context of the Christian calling to build a community of strangers in a pluralistic society like the United States of America. The African diaspora is invited to their vocational calling of rebuilding their local communities using Nehemiah, Ezra, and the contemporary Jewish community in the Diaspora as biblical and contemporary example.

Transatlantic History

Transatlantic History
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 1585444863
ISBN-13 : 9781585444861
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Transatlantic History by : Steven G. Reinhardt

The transatlantic world has had immense influence on the direction of world history. The six illuminating studies in Transatlantic History address cultural exchanges and intercontinental developments that contribute to our modern understanding of global communities. Transatlantic history encompasses a variety of scholarly problems and approaches from multiple disciplines, and volume editors Steven G. Reinhardt and Dennis P. Reinhartz have assembled a collection of essays that reflect the diversity within the field. Introducing the book, William McNeill provides a unifying overview of the concept and practice of transatlantic history by placing it within the larger context of world history. The chapter authors bring distinctive styles and methods to the investigation of the processes of interaction and adaptation among Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans. Their studies range from the Spanish imperial crisis in the 1600s to the urbanization of Europe and the Americas, from graphic portrayals of the Atlantic world to the settlement of Ireland, America, and South Africa and the recent diaspora of West Africans. Readers interested in world history, communication, and cultural studies will find Transatlantic History provocative and challenging as it convincingly argues for the importance of this new field.

The New African Diaspora

The New African Diaspora
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9780253003362
ISBN-13 : 0253003369
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The New African Diaspora by : Isidore Okpewho

The New York Times 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.

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 667
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ISBN-10 : 9780759120495
ISBN-13 : 0759120498
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

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Beyond Christendom

Beyond Christendom
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Publisher : Orbis Books
Total Pages : 824
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ISBN-10 : 9781608331031
ISBN-13 : 1608331032
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond Christendom by : Jehu Hanciles

Hanciles does yeoman work in part one synthesizing studies on the impact of globalization, revealing that its outcomes will likely not be determined by the Euro-American heartlands that sparked this movement. Instead, in parts two he shows that migration in general is having an enormous effect on shaping a new world order, and in part three, "Mobile Faith," he advances the case for the migration of Christians as carrying within it the seeds of renewal for the whole church and also the potential to reshape church-state and religion and culture relations globally.

The Black Migrant Athlete

The Black Migrant Athlete
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9780803288478
ISBN-13 : 0803288476
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Migrant Athlete by : Munene Mwaniki

The popularity and globalization of sport have led to an ever-increasing migration of black athletes from the global South to the United States and Western Europe. While the hegemonic ideology surrounding sport is that it brings diverse people together and ameliorates social divisions, sociologists of sport have shown this to be a gross simplification. Instead, sport and its narratives often reinforce and re-create stereotypes and social boundaries, especially regarding race and the prowess and the position of the black athlete. Because sport is a contested terrain for maintaining and challenging racial norms and boundaries, the black athlete has always impacted popular (white) perceptions of blackness in a global manner. The Black Migrant Athlete analyzes the construction of race in Western societies through a study of the black African migrant athlete. Munene Franjo Mwaniki presents ten black African migrant athletes as a conceptual starting point to interrogate the nuances of white supremacy and of the migrant and immigrant experience with a global perspective. By using celebrity athletes such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, and Catherine Ndereba as entry points into a global discourse, Mwaniki explores how these athletes are wrapped in social and cultural meanings by predominately white-owned and -dominated media organizations. Drawing from discourse analysis and cultural studies, Mwaniki examines the various power relations via media texts regarding race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality.

Foreign-Born African Americans

Foreign-Born African Americans
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Publisher : Nova Publishers
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 1590337557
ISBN-13 : 9781590337554
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Foreign-Born African Americans by : Festus E. Obiakor

In this book, immigrant minorities from Africa and the Caribbean tell their unique stories. These new Americans recount their travels in the American maze, and thus, allow their voices to be heard. Who really cares for these voices? They do care and Americans should care! Foreign born African Americans frequently find themselves in precarious situations. They confront three intriguing questions: How Black are they? How much racism do they endure? And how do they survive in spite of the odds? In reality, they are Blacks who are Black enough to encounter problems that other Blacks in America experience. However, they also understand that they must succeed in a competitive complex society like America. On the one hand, they are grateful to be in America; but on the other hand, they wonder why they must cross so many rubicons to achieve their goals. This book is unique! Never before have voices of Africans (from Africa and the Caribbean) been heard in this manner!! These voices provide multidimensional cases for scholars, educators, program planners, community leaders, and politicians. education, intercultural education, and multicultural education. It could also be a supplementary text for courses in general education and African/American Studies. In fact, it should be on the reading list of every American interested in making our world a better place to live.