ISBN:
1280528311
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9781280528316
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9780195099737
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0195099737
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1429415584
,
9781429415583
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 295 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Life lines
DDC:
305.891411077311
Keywords:
East Indian Americans Cultural assimilation
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Illinois
;
Chicago
;
East Indian Americans Ethnic identity
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Illinois
;
Chicago
;
East Indian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
East Indian Americans Ethnic identity
;
East Indian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
East Indian Americans Ethnic identity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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East Indian Americans ; Cultural assimilation
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East Indian Americans ; Ethnic identity
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Social conditions
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Aziaten
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Assimilatie (sociologie)
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Etnisch bewustzijn
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Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions
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Illinois
;
Chicago
;
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions
;
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions
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Illinois ; Chicago
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index. - Description based on print version record
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