TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adjepong,Anima
TI  - Afropolitan projects: redefining Blackness, sexualities, and culture from Houston to Accra 
SN  - 9781469665184
AV  - DT510.4 .A44 2021
U1  - 305.896/67 23
PY  - 0000///
CY  -  
PB  -  
KW  - Ghanaians
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Return migrants
KW  - Ghana
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index; Afropolitan Mentality in Houston -- The Christian American Afropolitan Project -- Accra's Afropolitan Vibe -- Afropolitan Politics in Accra -- Afropolitan Sexual Politics -- Afropolitan Racial Politics
N2  - "In this comparative work of sociology, Adjepong examines the aspirations of a diverse group of Ghanaians who moved to the United States; those who returned to Ghana after years in the United States, Western Europe, or the United Kingdom; and those who have always made their lives in Ghana. In doing so, Adjepong provides a new way to understand how a select group of upwardly mobile Africans collectively and individually demonstrate their belonging as global citizens. The author takes care to place an emphasis on intersectionality, with a particular focus on sexuality, sexual politics, and popular culture, which opens up space for an engagement with African lives as complex and complicated--a correction to the simplistic Western view of Ghanaians and Africans writ large. Adjepong's examination of class-privileged Africans brings this understudied cohort to the forefront by acknowledging their experiences and, in turn, offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives"--
ER  -