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Encounters with American ethnic cultures / edited by Philip L. Kilbride, Jane C. Goodale, Elizabeth R. Ameisen ; in collaboration with Carolyn G. Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Region.
- Ethnicity.
- Minorities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Region.
- Minorities.
- Philadelphia Region (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
- Philadelphia Region (Pa.).
- Philadelphia Region (Pa.)--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the ""invisible"" (WASPS and African-Americans); ""self-chosen"" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); ""gender-related"" (the Lubovitcher); ""religious"" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puerto Rican); and ""dislocated"" (Cambodians and people experiencing homelessness). Ethnographic fieldwork focuses an ins
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Black and WASP in American cultural experience
- pt. 2. Self-chosen ethnicity
- pt. 3. Interpretations of gender and ethnicity
- pt. 4. Ethnicity and religion
- pt. 5. Dislocation and ethnicity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8375-1
- 0-585-14092-8
- OCLC:
- 817893128
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