Preface: griots from different shores
Introduction: the newest African Americans?
West Africa and West Africans: imagined communities in Africa and the diaspora
Occupational detour: new paths to making a living
Capturing a niche: the West African enclave economy
Transnational ties/translocal connections: traversing nations, cities, and cultures
More than black: resistance and rapprochement
Young, gifted, and west african: transnational migrants growing up in America
Conclusion: further into the twenty-first century.
African and American : West Africans in post-civil rights America by Marilyn Halter. ISBN 9780814760703. Published by New York University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.