Outside Looking In - An African Perspective on American Pluralistic Society

Mr. Apraku gives the reader an outsider's analysis of the good and bad elements that make up the U.S. The author, a Ghanian who has spent the last 18 years studying and teaching in the U.S., brings his personal experiences as an emigré to this examination of American capitalism and democracy. He looks at the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the American democratic system. Many non-Westerners, including Africans, do not know enough about the western democracy of the American economic system they are being asked to adopt as a panacea to their economic, political, and social problems. This book should be especially appealing to scholars in international and economic development, developmental economics, political economics, and African studies.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
America the Beautiful
What Price Success
The Heartbreak
Voter Apathy and Media Politics
Black Is Black
Bibliography
Index

About the author

KOFI K. APRAKU, formerly Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, is orginally from Ghana. He is the author of African Emigres in the United States (Praeger, 1991).

Product details

• Authors: Kofi K. Apraku, Apraku Kofi K.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.1996
• EAN: 9780275942076
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94207-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Weight: 425 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, ECONOMICS: INTERNATIONAL, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples