Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience

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Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia: A Balch Institute Community Profile

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Year: 2001
Pages: 54
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 1422358240

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by Leigh Swigart (au); Kathryn Wilson (ed); Vera Viditz-Ward (ph).
For 18 months around 1999-2000, often accompanied by project photographer Vera Viditz-Ward, Leigh Swigart, ethnographer & guest curator on the Balch Institute's African Immigrant Project, was in the field -- that is, anywhere & everywhere that African immigrants live, work, & congregate in Philadelphia: community association meetings, churches, parties & celebrations, African groceries. She met & came to know people from all over the African continent. Contents of this profile: Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia; Philadelphia's African Communities at a Glance; Resources on African Immigration; & Directory of African Community Resources. Photos.

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