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Building Diaspora : Filipino Cultural Community Formation on the Internet

Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2004

Online-Ressource (204 p)

Englisch

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Why Filipinos?; Chapter One: Introduction Filipino Community Formation on the Internet; Chapter Two: Problematizing Diaspora: If Nation, Culture, and Homeland Are Constructed, Why Bother with Diasporic Identity?; Chapter Three: Selling Out One's Culture: The Imagined Homeland and Authenticity; Chapter Four: "Ain't I a Filipino (Woman)?": Filipina as Gender Marker; Chapter Five: Laughter in the Rain: Jokes as Membership and Resistance; Chapter Six: E Pluribus or E Pluribus Unum?: Can There Be Unity in Diversity?

Appendix A: Studying the Definition of "Filipino"Appendix B: You May Be Married to a Filipina If; Appendix C: Are You Really Filipino?; Notes; References; Index; About the Author;

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Print version: Building Diaspora : Filipino Cultural Community Formation on the Internet

978-0-8135-3513-5

978-0-8135-3513-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-8135-3744-3 ( : 24.95 (NL))

E184.F4 I37 2005

305.89921073090511     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Community life ; United States ; Filipino Americans ; Ethnic identity ; Filipino Americans ; Race identity ; Filipino Americans ; Social conditions ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Philippines ; Relations ; United States ; Transnationalism ; Electronic books

Building Diaspora heralds an important development in cultural studies, ethnic studies, the sociology of media, and globalization. Emily Ignacio brings an extended, incisive empirical investigation that is still quite rare in the theory-heavy yet data-light field of cyberspace cultural studies. She carefully crafts a framework in which to showcase the itinerant ideas and desires of Filipinos talking to each other from various geographical locations."—Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provide