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Thirty years after leaving his native Mali, Manthia Diawara has a home in New York City, and more than a few acclaimed publications to his name. Still, he cannot shake the memories of his birth country-or of his first place of self-imposed exile: the heady streets of 1960s Paris. In this bittersweet memoir, Diawara recounts a year spent looking at how the assimilation process shapes the lives and dreams of immigrants everywhere. From the nightclubs of Bamako, to the cafes of Boulevard Montparnasse, to the black neighborhoods of 1970s Washington, D.C., this important and original book shatters many cherished notions about experiencing race in the world today. At turns humorous and harrowing, beautifully written and shrewdly argued, it offers an unsentimental view of African traditions at the same time that it confronts America's most deeply ingrained prejudices.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: We Won't Budge
• Author: Manthia Diawara
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780465017102
• ISBN: 046501710X
• ID: 05145262
• Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
• Weight: 417 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 2004

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