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Desi land : teen culture, class, and success in Silicon Valley / Shalini Shankar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shankar, Shalini, 1972-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asian American teenagers--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)--Social conditions.
- South Asian American teenagers.
- South Asian American teenagers--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)--Ethnic identity.
- South Asian Americans--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)--Social conditions.
- South Asian Americans.
- South Asian Americans--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)--Ethnic identity.
- Ethnicity--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Ethnicity.
- Subculture--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Subculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography of South Asian American teenagers in Silicon Valley.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Welcome to Desi land
- California, here we come, right back where we started from
- Defining Desi teen culture
- Living and desiring the Desi bling life
- Desi fashions of speaking
- Being fobulous on multicultural day
- Remodeling the model minority stereotype
- Dating on the DL and arranged marriages
- In the new millennium.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822389231
- 0822389231
- OCLC:
- 308677453
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