Life lines : community, family, and assimilation among Asian Indian immigrants / Jean Bacon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Jean Leslie, 1962- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indian Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Cultural assimilation.

East Indian Americans.

East Indian Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Ethnic identity.

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

Chicago (Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text is intended for sociologists and anthropologists interested in ethnicity, community and integration amongst Asian Indian immigrants.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction; I: Public Life; 2. The Question of Worldview; 3. Organizational Life in the Indian Community; 4. Organizations of the Second Generation; 5. Problems Talk: The Rhetoric of Adjustment in the Immigrant Press; II: Family Portraits; 6. Family Life; 7. The Nagars: Duty and Heart; 8. The lyengars: Historical Indians; 9. The Kumars: Compromise; 10. The Shenoys: Alternative Identities; 11. The Shankars: Searching for a Close Family; III: Family and Community; 12. Families: A Model of Intergenerational Change

13. Families and Organizations: A Division of Labor in Support of CommunityAppendix A. Organizations of the Indian Community; Appendix B. Some Notes on Method; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774322-6

1-280-52831-1

0-19-535669-1

1-4294-1558-4

OCLC:

466426522