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We Won't Budge

An African Exile in the World

By: Manthia Diawara

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Paperback | 1 August 2004

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In this deeply personal and unflinchingly honest exploration of what it means to be African, Manthia Diawara recounts the bittersweet experience of an expatriate who no longer lives life as an "African" yet is the object of others' fantasies and fears about people of the dark continent. Comparing his fortunes in America with those of his cousins in Paris, Diawara assesses the way tradition and community give meaning to their lives, despite the ugliness of modern French attitudes toward Africans. At the same time, he confronts the trauma experienced by Africans in America such as Amadou Diallo. Diawara's experience of life as an African and an African American yields fresh and stunning insights about race, ethnic identity, immigration, and assimilation in the modern globalized world. This important and original book will shatter many cherished notions about what it means to experience race as an African in the world today. Beautifully written and shrewdly argued, its unsentimental view of African culture and traditions, as well as its debunking of the idealized promise of an unracialized life abroad, is certain to ignite debate.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies Biographies & True Stories Biographies Autobiographies Sociology & Anthropology

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Back to Bamako	p. 1
We Won't Budge	p. 25
Les Sans-Papiers: Menace to Society	p. 49
Johnny Be Good	p. 75
Let the Good Times Roll	p. 101
La Bagatelle: The Four Hundred Blows	p. 123
Dr. Feelgood	p. 137
My Cousin Bintou	p. 157
We Came Here with Our Teeth	p. 171
Portrait of the Writer by Himself	p. 201
Me and Mrs. Jones	p. 225
There Must Be Some Way Out of Here	p. 251
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We Won't Budge

An African Exile in the World

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