Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 240 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0203717805
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0415306000
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology 7
Content:
Contributors from the fields of sociology, anthropology, history and women's studies focus on the everyday social interactions that makeschools, workplaces and neighbourhoods sites of cultural creativity, transformation and resistance
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-233) and index
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Cover; Immigrant Life in the U.S.; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: American identities in a global era; PART I The local and the nation in a transnational world; 2 Elusive citizenship: education, the press, and the struggle over representation in Napa, California 1848-1910; 3 The prehistory of the Cadenú: Dominican identity, social class, and the problem of mobility, 1965-78; 4 Between fantasy and despair: the transnational condition and high-tech immigration
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5 Asian-Latinos: Japanese-Peruvians' ethnic adaptation and social mobility in New York and Los AngelesPART II Family, school, and youth culture; 6 Adopted children's identities at the China/U.S. border; 7 Members of many gangs: childhood and ethno-racial identity on the streets of twentieth-century urban America; 8 'Becoming' and 'being' Chinese American in college: a look at ethnicity, social class, and neighborhood in identity development; PART III Immigrant labor; 9 Workplace identities and collective memory: living and remembering the effects of the Bracero total institution
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10 The significance of race in the urban labor market: a study of employers11 'Natural mothers' for sale: the construction of Latina immigrant identity in domestic service labor markets; 12 An afterword: the work and the wonder in studying immigrant life across the disciplines; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415306003
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Immigrant Life in the US : Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
Language:
English
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