The New African Americans

Almost 3 million of America’s black population are foreign born and between 1980 and 2005 this population has more than tripled. By 2005, at least 1 million US born black children had at least one foreign born parent. To capture these developments, a new documentary film “The Neo African Americans” by director Kobina Aidoo looks at how “… rapid immigration from Africa and the Caribbean is transforming the African-American narrative.” The film will be screened on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Miriam Jimenez Roman, Lorand Matory (Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University), and Mamadou Diouf (Director of Institute for African Studies and Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Columbia University).