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Published on: 2/17/2007
Last Visited: 8/26/2008
by Leigh Swigart (au); Kathryn Wilson (ed); Vera Viditz-Ward (ph).
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For 18 months around 1999-2000, often accompanied by project photographer Vera Viditz-Ward, Leigh Swigart, ethnographer and guest curator on the Balch Institute's African Immigrant Project, was in the field -- that is, anywhere and everywhere that African immigrants live, work, and congregate in Philadelphia: community association meetings, churches, parties and celebrations, African groceries.She met and came to know people from all over the African continent.Contents of this profile: Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia; Philadelphia's African Communities at a Glance; Resources on African Immigration; and Directory of African Community Resources.Photos.