Life in America : identity and everyday experience /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004. |
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| Description: | xi, 444 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5170210 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Identity and Everyday Life in America
- Part I. Conditions of Identity, Violence, and Technologies
- 1. Cyborg Violence: Bursting Bodies and Borders with Queer Machines
- 2. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation But Were Afraid to Ask
- 3. Dousing the Fire or Fanning the Flames: The Role of Human Relations Practitioners in Intergroup Conflicts
- Part II. Church, Family, and the Dynamics Post-Civil Rights Movement
- 4. What it Means to be Christian: The Role of Religion in the Construction of Ethnic Identity and Boundary Among Second-Generation Korean Americans
- 5. 'The Normal American Family' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life Among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants
- 6. I Really Do Feel I'm 1.5': The Construction of Self and Community by Young Korean Americans
- Part III. Consumption, Class, and Traditions of Negotiation and Investment
- 7. Challenging Traditional Marriage: Never Married Chinese American and Japanese American Women
- 8. Cultural Citizenship as Subject Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States
- Part IV. The Politics and Perils of Assimilation
- 9. More Than 'Model Minorities' or 'Delinquents': A Look at Hmong American High School Students
- 10. 'We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do': Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives
- 11. College and the Notions of 'Asian American': Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans Negotiate Race and Identity
- 12. Sexual Minorities and the New Urban Poverty
- 13. Institutional Violence in the Everyday Practices of School: The Narrative of a Young Lesbian
- 14. Queer Pilgrimage: The San Francisco Homeland and Identity Tourism
- Part VI. Policing Blackness, Authenticity, and the Soul Patrol
- 15. Birthdays, Basketball, and Breaking Hard: Negotiating with Class in Contemporary Black America
- 16. Nike's Reign
- 17. Black Like This: Race, Generation, and Rock in the Post-Civil Rights Era
- Part VII. Privilege, Power, and Anxiety of the Norm
- 18. It Hurts To Be A Girl: Growing Up Poor, White, and Female
- 19. White Means Never Having to Say You're Ethnic: White Youth and the Construction of 'Cultureless Identities
- 20. 'I Want to be the Minority': The Politics of Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
- Part VIII. Language, History, and Specificity
- 21. The Politics of Labeling: Latino/a Cultural Identities of Self and Others
- 22. Heart Like a Car: Hispano/Chicano Culture in Northern New Mexico
- 23. Checkin' Up on My Guy: Chicanas, Social Capital, and the Culture of Romance
- Index
