Mamadi Corra

African Immigrants in the United States

The Gendering Significance of Race through International Migration?

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Produktbeschreibung

African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race? examines recent trends and implications of the growth of African immigration to the United States. Mamadi Corra highlights several resulting sociodemographic processes underway, including the changing composition of the foreign-born and US Black populations. Corra also explores sociodemographic profiles of these "new African Americans" or "new Americans," highlighting the increasing diversity, yet also the racialized portrait of this group. Corra discusses key patterns including the shifting racial and gender composition of immigrants, with a growing proportion of "Black" and female African immigrants and a decreasing proportion of "White" and male immigrants. The book also compares socioeconomic profiles of African immigrants with other immigrant groups and Native American subgroups. Taken together, Corra discovers that the salience of race that is mediated by gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781793648228
• ISBN-10: 1793648220
• Artikelnr.: 64984912

Autorenporträt

By Mamadi Corra

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Chapter 1. Africans in the United States: An Increasingly Visible Immigrant
Population
Chapter 2. Patterns of African Immigration to the United States and
Sociodemographic Profile
Chapter 3. Immigration and the U.S. Experience: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 4. An Intra-Group Comparison of African Immigrants in the United
States: Gendered Variations?
Chapter 5. African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering
Significance of Race through International Migration?
Chapter 6. African Immigrants in the United States: A Comparison with
Natives
Chapter 7. African Immigrants in the United States: Summary and Concluding
Observations