Foreign-born African Americans
Subtitle: silenced voices in the discourse on race
By: Festus E. Obiakor and Patrick A. Grant, editors.
Contributors: Obiakor, Festus E.; Grant, Patrick A.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Huntington, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Africans -- United States -- Social conditions.; Caribbean Americans -- Social conditions.; Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions.; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.; Africans -- United States -- Biography.; Caribbean Americans -- Biography.; Blacks -- United States -- Biography.; Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: THE AFRICAN CONNECTION 1; title: Chapter 1 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: My Journey in the American Maze 3; title: Festus E. Obiakor; title: Chapter 2 Reflections of an African-Bor Immigrant: Story of Alienation 11; title: Godwin Okebaram Uwah; title: Chapter 3 In Spite of My Problems, I Still Survived 21; title: Olalekan A. Benson, Sr.; title: Chapter 4 Prince Gordon, the Dishwasher? My American Journey 29; title: Jacob U. Gordon; title: Chapter 5 My Experiences as a Nigerian-Born American 37; title: Ugo A. Okoro; title: Chapter 6 Immigrant Survival in America: My Journey 43; title: Nnaemeka Phil Chukka; title: Chapter 7 Twenty Years in the Belly of the Great Whale: My Survival in Mainstream America 49; title: Michael Oladejo Afolayan; title: PART II: THE CARIBBEAN CONNECTION 61; title: Chapter 8 Coming to America with Eyes Wide Shut 63; title: Patrick Grant; title: Chapter 9 Journey to the Wild 71; title: Carine Deshommes Jones; title: Chapter 10 Making it Happen: My Survival in America 77; title: Christlyn Frederick-Stanley; title: Chapter 11 The Challenge of Fitting In 83; title: Sylvanus A. Drakes; title: Chapter 12 My Journey as an Afro Caribbean Woman; title: to America's Ivory Tower 93; title: Mary V. Alfred; title: Chapter 13 From Montserrat to Mississippi, United States: My Journey 105; title: Helen T. Oliver; title: Chapter 14 Many Tunnels and Many Lights: My Experiences as an Immigrant Minority 113; title: Pauline Harris-Obiakor; title: Chapter 15 My Journey: From Barbados to the United States 121; title: Litchfield O'Brien Thompson.