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[213]-232) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface: On Life Betwixt and Between --$tPrologue to a Diasporan Journey --$tPart I. Reimagining North America's African Diaspora --$t1. "Africa" in Minnesota --$t2. Ethnographic Grounding --$tPart II. Across Diasporan Space, Time: Who Is "African" in a Global Ecumene? --$t3. "Three Parts African": Blood, Heart, Skin, and Memory --$t4. Organizing Across Diasporan Crosscurrents --$t5. The African Body Resistant --$tPart III. Creating "Africa": A State of Mind, Body, Spirit --$t6. Healing the Mind: Embodying an African Epistemology --$t7. Healing the Body: Reactivating the African Habitus --$t8. Healing the Spirit: Embodying an African Historicity --$tEpilogue to a Diasporan Journey --$tAppendix A: Research Design, Methods, and Documents --$tAppendix B: Cultural Wellness Center and Powderhorn Photographs --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWith a booming economy that afforded numerous opportunities for immigrants throughout the 1990's, the Twin Cities area has attracted people of African descent from throughout the United States and the world and is fast becoming a transnational metropolis. Minnesota's largest urban area, the region now also has the country's most diverse black population. A closely drawn ethnography, Creating Africa in America: Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City seeks to understand and evaluate the process of identity formation in the context of globalization in a way that is also site specific. Bringing to this study a rich and interesting professional history and expertise, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson focuses on a Minneapolis-based nonprofit, the Cultural Wellness Center, which combines different ethnic approaches to bodily health and community well-being as the basis for a shared, translocal "African" culture. The book explores how the body can become a surrogate locus for identity, thus displacing territory as the key referent for organizing and experiencing African diasporan diversity. Showing how alternatives are created to mainstream majority and Afrocentric approaches to identity, she addresses the way that bridges can be built in the African diaspora among different African immigrant, African American, and other groups. As this thoughtful and compassionate ethnographic study shows, the fact that there is no simple and concrete way to define how one can be African in contemporary America reflects the tangled nature of cultural processes and social relations at large. Copeland-Carson demonstrates the cultural creativity and social dexterity of people living in an urban setting, and suggests that anthropologists give more attention to the role of the nonprofit sector as a forum for creating community and identity throughout African diasporan history in the United States. 410 0$aContemporary ethnography. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$vCase studies 606 $aAfrican Americans$xServices for$zMinnesota$zMinneapolis 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$vCase studies 606 $aAfrican Americans$zMinnesota$zMinneapolis$xEthnic identity 606 $aAfrican Americans$zMinnesota$zMinneapolis$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican diaspora$vCase studies 606 $aCommunity life$zMinnesota$zMinneapolis 606 $aCommunity life$zUnited States$vCase studies 607 $aMinneapolis (Minn.)$xSocial conditions 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAfrican-American Studies. 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xServices for 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora 615 0$aCommunity life 615 0$aCommunity life 676 $a305.896/073776579 700 $aCopeland-Carson$b Jacqueline$01619678 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825125003321 996 $aCreating Africa in America$93952054 997 $aUNINA