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    Posted July 21, 2009 by
    Kobi1 |
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    Lewiston, Maine
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    African perspectives on black America

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    Somali African Americans? In the last fix to six years, a small town in Maine has seen as influx of refugees from Somalia and Sudan. When I went to screen The Neo-African Americans at Bates College, I used the opportunity to document the life of these Black, Muslim, African immigrants and how they are fitting in in this old White, Catholic French Canadian settlement.

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