Lee D. Baker (ed.)

Life in America

Identity and Everyday Experience
Herausgeber: Baker, Lee

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Produktbeschreibung

Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today. While individuals stitch together complex identities based on everything from the hobbies they enjoy to the neighborhoods in which they live, these identities rarely conform to the quick and routine identification of people by race, gender, and age. By exploring this tension between identity and identification, one can begin to understand how people creatively confront the perks and perils of identity in the United States. Life in America offers a look at a wide range of subjects including: violence and video games, queer pilgrimages to San Francisco, Filipina critiques of "sleeping around," and the significance of "lowriders" in Hispano/Chicano culture. Framed by a lively introduction, this book provides readers with a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means to be American.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 177mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 948g
• ISBN-13: 9781405105637
• ISBN-10: 1405105631
• Artikelnr.: 21019396

Autorenporträt

Lee D. Baker is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University. He is author of From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (1998). He is president elect of the Society for the Anthropology of North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Identity 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 Americans (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 How).
Part VI: Policing Blackness, Authenticity, and the Soul Patrol.
15. Birthdays, Basketball, and Braking 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 You'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)
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Part VIII: Language, History, and Specificity.
21. The Politics of Labeling: Latino/a Cultural Identities of Self and
Others (Suzenne 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 ten Culture of
Romance (Angela Valenzuela).
Index.

Rezensionen

"This rich volume can be recommended to both advanced scholars ofAmerican culture and beginners in this field. The former can find amultitude of quite recent applications of approaches they arealready familiar with; the latter may wonder at the dizzyingvarieties of American experience, as well as look with disbelief atthe multitude."
Anthropologie

"Lee Baker has pulled together and provided an extremely usefulconceptual frame for some of the best social analysis on currenttrends in the cultural practices of identity and identification inUS society. This collection is a 'must read' for anyoneinterested in demystifying identity politics and understanding thecomplexities, pluralities, and common ground of culturalcitizenship in the USA as it is changing in the new millennium."Faye V. Harrison, University of Tennessee

"American higher education's longstanding myths aboutcultural assimilation and equal access for all have given way to anew scholarly literature, which rigorously critiques the structuresof identity, inequality, and power. In this timely and provocativereader, brilliant anthropologist Lee Baker has selected anoutstanding collection of essays about the complex politics ofcultural diversity. Life in America provides an insightfulexploration into the major contemporary debates and issues thatdefine studies of race, gender, sexuality, and class in Americansociety." Manning Marable, Columbia University

"Life in America is a user's guide to everyday lifeand all its contradictory complexity, an indispensable inventory ofpractices and patterns in US society that produce both creativeconnections and corrosive conflicts, stimulating similarities anddisturbing differences." George Lipsitz, University ofCalifornia, San Diego