Foreign-Born African Americans: Silences Voices in the Discourse on RaceNova Publishers, 2005 - Всего страниц: 196 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. |
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... White Americans speak of " family values " as if this concept was a new revelation or message discovered by White America ( // Takes a Village ... Foreword xiii.
... White Americans speak of " family values " as if this concept was a new revelation or message discovered by White America ( // Takes a Village ... Foreword xiii.
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... White America ( // Takes a Village ... by Hillary Rodham Clinton ) . As Africans , we knew and were the product of African family values . " It takes a village to raise a child , " is , after all , an African proverb . Growing up in ...
... White America ( // Takes a Village ... by Hillary Rodham Clinton ) . As Africans , we knew and were the product of African family values . " It takes a village to raise a child , " is , after all , an African proverb . Growing up in ...
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... White Americans , on the other hand , perhaps following the dictum of ' divide and conquer , " imply , in veiled conversation , that we Africans and Caribbeans are different from African Americans . In the minds of many , we are cut ...
... White Americans , on the other hand , perhaps following the dictum of ' divide and conquer , " imply , in veiled conversation , that we Africans and Caribbeans are different from African Americans . In the minds of many , we are cut ...
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... White neighborhoods . It was six years later when my parents came to visit in 1969 that I took them to Harlem . I was amazed at how they , too , felt it was part of home . They loved it when I took them there— day or night . They also ...
... White neighborhoods . It was six years later when my parents came to visit in 1969 that I took them to Harlem . I was amazed at how they , too , felt it was part of home . They loved it when I took them there— day or night . They also ...
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... the Pitt campus . I captured with my camera lens the destruction to the businesses and neighborhoods of the Black population ; nothing touched the White stores in downtown , only a few blocks away from xviii Mohammed Aman.
... the Pitt campus . I captured with my camera lens the destruction to the businesses and neighborhoods of the Black population ; nothing touched the White stores in downtown , only a few blocks away from xviii Mohammed Aman.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place My Journey in the American Maze | 1 |
Reflections of an AfricanBorn Immigrant Story of Alienation | 13 |
In Spite of My Problems I Still Survived | 27 |
Prince Gordon the Dishwasher? My American Journey | 39 |
My Experiences as a NigerianBorn American | 51 |
Immigrant Survival in America My Journey | 61 |
Twenty Years in the Belly of the Great Whale My Survival in Mainstream America | 69 |
The Caribbean Connection | 87 |
Journey to the Wild | 101 |
Making it Happen My Survival in America | 109 |
The Challenge of Fitting In | 117 |
My Journey as an Afro Caribbean Woman to Americas Ivory Tower | 133 |
From Montserrat to Mississippi United States My Journey | 151 |
Many Tunnels and Many Lights My Experiences as an Immigrant Minority | 161 |
My Journey From Barbados to the United States | 171 |
Index | 191 |
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Стр. xxi - We have been believers in the new Jerusalem. We have been believers feeding greedy grinning gods, like a Moloch demanding our sons and our daughters, our strength and our wills and our spirits of pain. We have been believers, silent and stolid and stubborn and strong. We have been believers yielding substance for the world.
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