{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.022288261515601784, 'fraction_numerical': 0.005943536404160475, 'mean_word_length': 5.265116279069767, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (review)

claims that identity construction is the central theme, there is very little discussion of the processes by which identities are constituted and reconstituted across geographic settings and time. The reader does not acquire insight into how particular individuals—North Carolinians, Liberians, settlers, colonists, slaves, free blacks, or slaveholders—come to understand who they are as North Carolinians, Liberians, and so on. The categories are simply employed in the narrative to describe a certain state of affairs. Similarly, the dynamics of community-building in Liberia is largely left unexplored. While a description of two towns settled by black North Carolinian immigrants, Millsburg and Caldwell, informs the reader about the extent of rural poverty and the high rate of malaria mortality experienced by the settlers, the reader is left to wonder how social bonds and a shared identity that shape a community developed in these new settlements. Undoubtedly, specialists will recognize a sizeable portion of what is imparted in the text. However, the ample descriptions salvaged by Clegg of aspects of black life in the Atlantic world from 1825 to 1893, in addition to his beautiful prose, will engage and educate the expert as well as the general reader.