Encounters with American ethnic cultures /

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Imprint:Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1990.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11107538
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Other authors / contributors:Kilbride, Philip Leroy.
Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter), 1926-2008.
Ameisen, Elizabeth R.
ISBN:0585140928
9780585140926
9780817383756
0817383751
0817304711
9780817304713
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-359) and index.
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Summary:Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans); "self-chosen" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); "gender-related" (the Lubovitcher); "religious" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puerto Rican); and "dislocated" (Cambodians and the homeless). Ethnographic fieldwork focuses an insider's view on the meaning of ethnic ex.
Other form:Print version: Encounters with American ethnic cultures. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1990 0817304711