Life lines : community, family, and assimilation among Asian Indian immigrants /

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Author / Creator:Bacon, Jean Leslie, 1962-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178108
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ISBN:1429415584
9781429415583
1280528311
9781280528316
9780195099737
0195099737
0195099729
0195099737
9780195099720
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community - Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan area - bound by neither geographic proximity, nor institutional ties, and explores the processes through which ethnic identity is transmitted to the next generation. Bacon's study centres upon the engrossing portraits of five immigrant families, each one a complex tapestry woven from the distinctive voices of its family members. Both extensive field work among community organizations and analyses of ethnic media help Bacon expose the complicated interplay between the private social interactions of family life and the stylized rhetoric of "Indianness" that permeates public life.; This inventive analysis suggests that the process of assimilation which these families undergo parallels the assimilation process experienced by anyone who conceives of him or herself as a member of a distinctive community in search of a place in American society.
Other form:Print version: Bacon, Jean Leslie, 1962- Life lines. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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