Title Creating Africa in America : translocal identity in an emerging world city / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations illustration Series Contemporary ethnography Contemporary ethnography. 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 Summary "'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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index Notes This edition in English Subject Cultural Wellness Center (Minneapolis, Minn.) SUBJECT Cultural Wellness Center (Minneapolis, Minn.) fast Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. African Americans -- Race identity African Americans -- Services for African Americans -- Social conditions African diaspora Community life Social conditions SUBJECT Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Social conditions Subject Minnesota -- Minneapolis United States Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book LC no. 2003070544 ISBN 9780812204261 0812204263 9780812237900 0812237900

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