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Learning to be Chinese American : community, education, and ethnic identity / Liang Du.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Du, Liang, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Social conditions.
- Chinese Americans--Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on original ethnographic material collected in an upper-middle class Chinese American community, this book aims at exploring the complicated identity production process within the community in relation to the rapidly changing global and local contexts. The book is expected to expand the scope of existing literature on identity production among immigrants of color in both empirical and methodological terms.
- Contents:
- Chinese Americans : community, education, and identities
- Rationales behind an education : that box doesn't belong to you
- The creation of a diaspora identity
- The limits of ethnicity : community-based education as a contesting site
- Learning to be Chinese Americans in new times : community, identity, and globalization.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-29953-0
- 1-283-61386-7
- 0-7391-3850-2
- 9786613926319
- OCLC:
- 856935243
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