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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lee D Baker |
| ISBN: | 1405105631 9781405105637 140510564X 9781405105644 |
| OCLC Number: | 51770241 |
| Description: | xi, 444 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: indetity and everyday life in America / Lee D. Baker. Part I. Conditions of identity, violence, and technologies. 1. Cyborg violence: bursting borders and bodies with queer machines/ Anne Allison -- 2. Everything you ever wanted to know about assimilation but were afraid to ask / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco -- 3. Dousing the fire or fanning the flames: the role of human relations practitioners in intergroup conflicts / Judith Goode -- Part II. Church, family, and the dynamics of post-civil rights migration. 4. What it means to be Christian: the role of religion in the construction of ethnic identity and boundary among second-generation Korean Americans / Kelly H. Chong -- 5. "The normal American family" as an interpretive structure of family life among grown children of Korean and Vietnamese immigrants / Karen Pyke -- 6. "I really do feel I'm 1.5!": the construction of self and community by young Korean American / Kyeyoung Park. Part III. Consumption, class, and traditions of negotiation and investment. 7. Challenging traditional marriage: never married Chinese American and Japanese American women / Susan J. Ferguson -- 8. Cultural citizenship as subject-making: immigrants negotiate racial and cultural boundaries in the United States / Aihwa Ong. Part IV. The politics and perils of assimilation. 9. More than "model minorities" or "delinquents": a look at Hmong American High School students / Stacey J. Lee -- 10. "We don't sleep around like white girls do": Family culture, and gender in Filipina American lives / Yen Le Espiritu -- 11. College and notions of "Asian American": Second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans negotiate race and identity / Nazli Kibria. Part V. More than consumption: experiencing gender, class, and race. 12. Sexual minorities and the new urban poverty / Jeff Maskovsky -- 13. Institutional violence in the everyday practices of school: the narrative of a young lesbian / Kathryn Herr -- 14. Queer pilgrimage: the San Francisco homeland and identity tourism / Alyssa Cymene Howe -- Part VI. Policing blackness, authenticity, and the soul patrol. 15. Birthdays, basketball, and breaking bread: negotiating with class in contemporary Black America / John L. Jackson -- 16. Nike's reign / Mary Pattillo-McCoy -- 17. Black like this: race, generation, and rock in the post-civil rights era / Maureen Mahon. Part VII. Privilege, power, and anxiety of the norm. 18. It hurts to be a girl: growing up poor, white, and female / Julia Hall -- 19. White means never having to say your're ethnic: white youth and the construction of "cultureless" identities / Pamela Perry -- 20. "I want to be the minority": the politics of youthful white masculinities in sport and popular culture in 1990s America / Kyle W. Kusz. Part VIII. Language, history, and specificity. 21. The politics of labeling: Latino/a cultural identities of self and others / Suzanne Oboler -- 22. "Heart like a car": Hispano/Chicano culture in Northern New Mexico / Brenda Bright -- 23. "Checkin' up on my guy": Chicanas, social capital, and the culture of romance / Angela Valenzuela. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lee D. Baker. |
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