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Lives in translation : Sikh youth as British citizens / Kathleen D. Hall.
LIBRA DA125.S57 H35 2002
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Van Pelt Library DA125.S57 H35 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Kathleen, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sikh youth--Great Britain.
- Sikh youth.
- Immigrants--Great Britain.
- Immigrants.
- Children of immigrants.
- Great Britain.
- South Asians--Great Britain.
- South Asians.
- Children of immigrants--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 259 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Hall investigates the cultural politics of immigration and citizenship, education and identity-formation among Sikh youth whose parents migrated to England from India and East Africa.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: A Different Immigration Story
- 2. From Subjects to Citizens
- 3. The Politics of Language Recognition
- 4. "Becoming like Us"
- 5. Mediated Traditions
- 6. "You Can't Be Religious and Be Westernized"
- 7. "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian"
- 8. Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and the Life Path
- Epilogue: An Unfinished Story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- ISBN:
- 081223667X
- 9780812236675
- 0812218116
- 9780812218114
- OCLC:
- 49525739
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