Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation

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Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation.

By Ezekiel Umo Ette. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. Pp. xii, 191. $60/37.95. [pounds sterling]

Nigerian Immigrants in the United States is a refreshing read. The book focuses on the experience of Nigerian immigrants in the United States and their interpretation of this experience, an approach the author refers to as phenomenological, or one of qualitative social research (p. 53). It is based on case studies of individual immigrants who discuss why they left Nigeria, what their experiences in the United States have been, and whether they see it as a good decision to have come to the …