<b>Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrants</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>African & American</i> tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African<br />immigrants and refugees in the United
New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
β Scribed by R. Drew Smith (editor); Lewis Baldwin (editor); Allison Calhoun-Brown (editor); Corwin Smidt (editor)
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 316
- Series
- The public influences of African American churches; 1
- Category
- Library
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