Creating Africa in America : Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City [1 ed.] 9780812204261, 9780812218763

With a booming economy that afforded numerous opportunities for immigrants throughout the 1990s, the Twin Cities area ha

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Creating Africa in America : Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City [1 ed.]
9780812204261, 9780812218763

"'Who is 'African' in a global ecumene? Anthropologist Copeland Carson poses this challenging questi

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Green draws on a vast amount of empirical data to thoroughly investigate the phenomenon of European identity.

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Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's

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Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend

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At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole.

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The emergence of the African middle class as a driver of Africa’s economic growth stands out as an important milestone i

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This book explores the effective management of HR functions in an African context. While previous research has thoroughl

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Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers co

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This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals—through studies on c

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Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa examines the complexities of government and obstacles facing constituti

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