| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era. By Kevin K. Gaines. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 342 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-3008-9.)
At various times in U.S. history, some Americans have fled what they perceived as a culturally stultifying and politically repressive society for greener pastures abroad. For many years, France was the haven of choice, drawing such cultural icons as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Richard Wright. Black writers and artists such as James Baldwin, Chester Himes, and the painter Beauford Delaney found a freedom from prejudice in Europe that contrasted significantly with the difficulties they had experienced in trying to enjoy a dignified life in the United States.	1
Colonial conflict disrupted this halcyon period for black expatriates. As a result of the Algerian War, Paris became less welcoming. For those African Americans who never felt entirely at home in white majority societies, Africa held out promise. The independence of new African states multiplied the possibilities for life in a black country. The historian Kevin K. Gaines has written an engaging account of the African American community that emerged in Accra in the 1950s, based on research done in the United States and Ghana. He profiles those émigrés during a critical period in the history of their adopted nation as well as that of their birthplace.	. . .

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