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Biculturalism, self identity and societal transformation

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Biculturalism, self identity and societal transformationedited by Rutledge M. Dennis.
other author:	Dennis, Rutledge M.
Published:	Bingley, UK :Emerald JAI,2008.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 267 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Biculturalism.
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0195-7449/15
ISBN:	9781849505550 (electronic bk.)

Biculturalism, self identity and societal transformation
Biculturalism, self identity and societal transformation[electronic resource] /edited by Rutledge M. Dennis. - Bingley, UK :Emerald JAI,2008. - 1 online resource (ix, 267 p.) :ill. - Research in race and ethnic relations,vol. 150195-7449 ;. - Research in race and ethnic relations ;v. 15..

Includes bibliographical references.

When a society or nation contains many cultures, large or small, with differing institutionaland organizations networks, individuals and groups must, in order to successfully navigate their passages within andbetween cultures, learn to act and react to primary and secondary cultural orientations, which might be labeled dominant and super-ordinate or non-dominant and sub-ordinate. Under such a scenario, biculturalism exists. The essays in this volume offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into biculturalism as an existing reality in many socieities. The authors present a variety of methodological strategies and techniques case studies, autoethnography, content analysis, participant observation, the national survey, and structured and unstructured interviews. Whereas some essays provide a brief history as a point of reference to aid the reader in understanding how and why biculturalism began and persists the beginning of biculturalism, others do not.All essays, whether written from social science or humanity perspectives, give the readers a glimpse into the bicultural world of a particular people or group. Hence, biculturalism is presented as it illustrates the world of the following: a female African American intellectual; German, Koreans, and Japanese immigrants, Koreans; South Asians; two autoethnographic bicultural case studies; issues of identity and biculturalism among Asians, Native Americans, whites, and African Americans in the U.S.; and, a contentanalysis of Spanish language programs for children, and essays analyzing biculturalism among JewishAmericans and African Americans, and a critique of Ralph Ellison's bicultural imperatives.Many of the essays will analyze class, ethnic, and gender issues as they relate to the idea of biculturality.The essays in this volume relate the bicultural experience and remind the reader that this bicultural experience may connect to ideas of acculturation, assimilation, marginality, identity, ambivalence, super-ordinate, sub-ordination, and issues related to insiders and outsiders, but a crucial themein biculturalism is the existence of two cultural streams and the fact that individuals and groups may,over time, operate in both streams, and deftly move within and betweeneach, as opportunities present themselves.

ISBN: 9781849505550 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

533823
Biculturalism.

LC Class. No.: HM1051 / .B53 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 327

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