From Africa to America : : Religion and Adaptation among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York / / Moses O. Biney.
Upon arrival in the United States, most African immigrants are immediately subsumed under the category “black.” In the eyes of most Americans-and more so to American legal and social systems-African immigrants are indistinguishable from all others, such as those from the Caribbean whose skin color t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Coming to America
- 2. By the Hudson River
- 3. Remembering the Homeland:
- 4. How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?
- 5. The Compound House
- 6. Conflict and Cohesion
- 7. Ebenezer
- 8. Paddling on Both Sides
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author