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<p>With a booming economy that afforded numerous opportunities for immigrants throughout the 1990s, the Twin Cities area has attracted people of African descent from throughout the United States and the world and is fast becoming a transnational metropolis. Minnesota's largest urban area, the region now also has the country's most diverse black population. A closely drawn ethnography, <i>Creating Africa in America: Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City</i> seeks to understand and evaluate the process of identity formation in the context of globalization in a way that is also site specific.</p> <p>Bringing to this study a rich and interesting professional history and expertise, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson focuses on a Minneapolis-based nonprofit, the Cultural Wellness Center, which combines different ethnic approaches to bodily health and community well-being as the basis for a shared, translocal "African" culture. The book explores how the body can become a surrogate locus for identity, thus displacing territory as the key referent for organizing and experiencing African diasporan diversity. Showing how alternatives are created to mainstream majority and Afrocentric approach

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Author

Copeland-Carson, Jacqueline

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press Project MUSE

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283899031

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Sociology