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Creating Africa in America : Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Ethnography SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204261
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creating Africa in AmericaDDC classification:
  • 305.896/073776579
LOC classification:
  • F614.M59 -- N44 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface: On Life Betwixt and Between -- Prologue to a Diasporan Journey -- Part I. Reimagining North America's African Diaspora -- 1. "Africa" in Minnesota -- 2. Ethnographic Grounding -- Part II. Across Diasporan Space/Time: Who Is "African" in a Global Ecumene? -- 3. "Three Parts African": Blood, Heart, Skin, and Memory -- 4. Organizing Across Diasporan Crosscurrents -- 5. The African Body Resistant -- Part III. Creating "Africa": A State of Mind/Body/Spirit -- 6. Healing the Mind: Embodying an African Epistemology -- 7. Healing the Body: Reactivating the African Habitus -- 8. Healing the Spirit: Embodying an African Historicity -- Epilogue to a Diasporan Journey -- Appendix A: Research Design, Methods, and Documents -- Appendix B: Cultural Wellness Center and Powderhorn Photographs / Bruce Silcox -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: "'Who is 'African' in a global ecumene? Anthropologist Copeland Carson poses this challenging question in her study of cultural dynamics in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface: On Life Betwixt and Between -- Prologue to a Diasporan Journey -- Part I. Reimagining North America's African Diaspora -- 1. "Africa" in Minnesota -- 2. Ethnographic Grounding -- Part II. Across Diasporan Space/Time: Who Is "African" in a Global Ecumene? -- 3. "Three Parts African": Blood, Heart, Skin, and Memory -- 4. Organizing Across Diasporan Crosscurrents -- 5. The African Body Resistant -- Part III. Creating "Africa": A State of Mind/Body/Spirit -- 6. Healing the Mind: Embodying an African Epistemology -- 7. Healing the Body: Reactivating the African Habitus -- 8. Healing the Spirit: Embodying an African Historicity -- Epilogue to a Diasporan Journey -- Appendix A: Research Design, Methods, and Documents -- Appendix B: Cultural Wellness Center and Powderhorn Photographs / Bruce Silcox -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

"'Who is 'African' in a global ecumene? Anthropologist Copeland Carson poses this challenging question in her study of cultural dynamics in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice.

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