Creating Africa in America : translocal identity in an emerging world city

Creating Africa in America : translocal identity in an emerging world city /

"'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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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Copeland-Carson, Jacqueline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
Series:Contemporary ethnography.
Subjects:
Cultural Wellness Center (Minneapolis, Minn.)
African Americans > Race identity > Case studies.
African Americans > Services for > Minnesota > Minneapolis.
African Americans > Social conditions > Case studies.
African Americans > Race identity > Minnesota > Minneapolis.
African Americans > Minnesota > Minneapolis > Social conditions.
African diaspora > Case studies.
Community life > Minnesota > Minneapolis.
Community life > United States > Case studies.
Minneapolis (Minn.) > Social conditions.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: On Life Betwixt and Between
  • Prologue to a Diasporan Journey
  • 1. "Africa" in Minnesota
  • 2. Ethnographic Grounding
  • 3. "Three Parts African": Blood, Heart, Skin, and Memory
  • 4. Organizing Across Diasporan Crosscurrents
  • 5. The African Body Resistant
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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