Education in Africa: African Immigrants and Education in the United States
By Nazma M. Ali and Yuusuf Caruso
African Immigrant Families in the United States : Transnational Lives and Schooling by ISBN: 9781498562096Publication Date: 2018-11-26Sub-Saharan African immigrants are emerging as the new model minority in the United States, excelling in education and social mobility. In African Immigrant Families in the United States: Transnational Lives and Schooling, Serah Shani examines the socioeconomic and cultural mechanisms behind their high levels of success. Shani explores the dynamics of Ghanaian transnational immigrants' lives and portrays a complex relationship between class, context, beliefs, and cultural practices.
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African Immigrants' Experiences in American Schools : Complicating the Race Discourse by 
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ISBN: 9781498510721Publication Date: 2016The book explores in depth salient African-rooted factors that come into play in the social and academic integration of African immigrant students, such as gender, spirituality, colonization, religious affiliation, etc. The authors examine American-rooted factors that complicate the adaptation of these students in the US educational school system, such as institutional racism, Afrophobia, Islamophobia, cultural discontinuities, curricular mismatches, and western media mis-portrayals.
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African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies by ISBN: 9780429202537Publication Date: 2020-11-29This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities. The chapters chronicle the lived-experiences and observations of African scholars in North America and examine a range of issues, ideas, and phenomena within North American colleges and universities. The contributors examine the political, ethnic, or religious upheavals that informed their migration or banishment; contrast the teaching-learning-research environment in Africa and North America; and discuss on and off-campus experience with segregation and racial inequality.
- "Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for African Immigrant Children in U.S. P-12 Schools." (2018) By Michael Takafor Ndemanu and Sheri Jordan. Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 49, no. 1 (January 2018) --via JSTOR
- This journal article sheds light on the challenges African immigrant children face in navigating through a relatively different and unfamiliar system of education in the United States. It also provides pre-emigration background information to the systems of education prevalent in Africa as well as the culturally responsive teaching strategies that support and enhance learning for the African immigrant students.
- Pew Research Center. "Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in the U.S. Are Often More Educated Than Those in Top European Destinations." (April 2018) (Washington, DC)
- United States Census. American Community Survey -and- Explore Census Data (Washington, DC)
Young Children of Black Immigrants in America by ISBN: 9780983159117Publication Date: 2012-11-21This book examines the well-being and development of children in black immigrant families (with parents from Africa and the Caribbean). There are 1.3 million such children in the United States. While children in these families account for 11 percent of all black children in America and represent a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population, they remain largely ignored by researchers. Chapters include analysis of the changing immigration flow to the United States; the role of family and school relationships in the well-being of African immigrant children; exploration of the effects of ethnicity and foreign-born status on infant health; and parenting behavior, health, and cognitive development among children in black immigrant families.
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