African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race through International Migration?

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.

Author: Mamadi Corra
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 11/10/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781793648228
ISBN10: 1793648220
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Race & Ethnic Relations

About the Author
Mamadi Corra is professor of sociology at East Carolina University (ECU).