Ethnic Negotiations
Author | : Eric D. Barreto |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9783161506093 |
.".. slightly revised version of a doctoral dissertation ... Emory University on April 12, 2010" p. [v].
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Author | : Eric D. Barreto |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9783161506093 |
.".. slightly revised version of a doctoral dissertation ... Emory University on April 12, 2010" p. [v].
Author | : Mia Tuan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-01-13 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions—25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States—but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners? Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race is the only study of this unique population to collect in-depth interviews with a multigenerational, random sample of adult Korean adoptees. The book examines how Korean adoptees form their social identities and compares them to native-born Asian Americans who are not adopted. How do American stereotypes influence the ways Korean adoptees identify themselves? Does the need to explore a Korean cultural identity—or the absence of this need—shift according to life stage or circumstance? In Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race, sixty-one adult Korean adoptees—representing different genders, social classes, and communities—reflect on early childhood, young adulthood, their current lives, and how they experience others' perceptions of them. The authors find that most adoptees do not identify themselves strongly in ethnic terms, although they will at times identify as Korean or Asian American in order to deflect questions from outsiders about their cultural backgrounds. Indeed, Korean adoptees are far less likely than their non-adopted Asian American peers to explore their ethnic backgrounds by joining ethnic organizations or social networks. Adoptees who do not explore their ethnic identity early in life are less likely ever to do so—citing such causes as general aversion, lack of opportunity, or the personal insignificance of race, ethnicity, and adoption in their lives. Nonetheless, the choice of many adoptees not to identify as Korean or Asian American does not diminish the salience of racial stereotypes in their lives. Korean adoptees must continually navigate society's assumptions about Asian Americans regardless of whether they chose to identify ethnically. Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race is a crucial examination of this little-studied American population and will make informative reading for adoptive families, adoption agencies, and policymakers. The authors demonstrate that while race is a social construct, its influence on daily life is real. This book provides an insightful analysis of how potent this influence can be—for transnational adoptees and all Americans.
Author | : Elazar Barkan |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2003-01-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892366737 |
These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.
Author | : Michael Awkward |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226033006 |
Encamped within the limits of experience and "authenticity," critics today often stake out their positions according to race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, and vigilantly guard the boundaries against any incursions into their privileged territory. In this book, Michael Awkward raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating such "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing our cultural boundaries. From Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It to Michael Jackson's physical transmutations, from Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon to August Wilson's Fences, from male scholars' investments in feminism to white scholars' in black texts—Awkward explores cultural moments that challenge the exclusive critical authority of race and gender. In each instance he confronts the question: What do artists, scholars, and others concerned with representations of Afro-American life make of the view that gender, race, and sexuality circumscribe their own and others' lives and narratives? Throughout he demonstrates the perils and merits of the sort of "boundary crossing" this book ultimately makes: a black male feminism. In pursuing a black male feminist criticism, Awkward's study acknowledges the complexities of interpretation in an age when a variety of powerful discourses have proliferated on the subject of racial, gendered, and sexual difference; at the same time, it identifies this proliferation as an opportunity to negotiate seemingly fixed cultural and critical positions.
Author | : Bandana Purkayastha |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005-06-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813537800 |
In the continuing debates on the topic of racial and ethnic identity in the United States, there are some that argue that ethnicity is an ascribed reality. To the contrary, others claim that individuals are becoming increasingly active in choosing and constructing their ethnic identities.Focusing on second-generation South Asian Americans, Bandana Purkayastha offers fresh insights into the subjective experience of race, ethnicity, and social class in an increasingly diverse America. The young people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese origin that are the subjects of the study grew up in mostly white middle class suburbs, and their linguistic skills, education, and occupation profiles are indistinguishable from their white peers. By many standards, their lifestyles mark them as members of mainstream American culture. But, as Purkayastha shows, their ethnic experiences are shaped by their racial status as neither “white” nor “wholly Asian,” their continuing ties with family members across the world, and a global consumer industry, which targets them as ethnic consumers.” Drawing on information gathered from forty-eight in-depth interviews and years of research, this book illustrates how ethnic identity is negotiated by this group through choice—the adoption of ethnic labels, the invention of “traditions,” the consumption of ethnic products, and participation in voluntary societies. The pan-ethnic identities that result demonstrate both a resilient attachment to heritage and a celebration of reinvention. Lucidly written and enriched with vivid personal accounts, Negotiating Ethnicity is an important contribution to the literature on ethnicity and racialization in contemporary American culture.
Author | : Ariana E. Vigil |
Publisher | : Global Latin/O Americas |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814255575 |
Examines how the boundaries of the Latina/o public sphere and representations of gender are negotiated through mass media in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.
Author | : Jeff Lesser |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822322924 |
A comparative study of immigration and ethnicity with an emphasis on the Chinese, Japanese, and Arabs who have contributed to Brazil's diverse mix.
Author | : M—nica D’az |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816528530 |
"First peoples: new directions in ethnic studies"
Author | : Jessica McCrory Calarco |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 019063443X |
In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.
Author | : Raymond Cohen |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |