Research Catalog

Title

Communicating ethnic and cultural identity / edited by Mary Fong and Rueyling Chuang.

Publication

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Fong, Mary, 1959-
• Chuang, Rueyling, 1964-

Description

xiv, 393 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Group identity
• USA
• United States
• Communicatie
• Culturele identiteit
• Plurale samenleving
• Etnische betrekkingen
• Ethnische Identität
• Kulturelle Identität
• 77.64 group dynamics
• group identity
• Social Identification
• Cultural pluralism > United States
• Ethnicity > United States
• Group identity > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Identity and the speech community -- Multiple dimensions of identity -- Ethnic and cultural identity: distinguishing features -- Theoretical perspectives: fluidity and complexity of cultural and ethnic identity -- Approaches to cultural identity: personal notes from an autoethnographical journey -- Grandma's photo album: clothing as symbolic representations of identity -- She speaks to us, for us, and of us: our lady of Guadalupe as a semiotic site of struggle and identity -- Memory, cinema, and the reconstitution of cultural identities in the Asian Indian diaspora -- Intercultural weddings and the simultaneous display of multiple identites.
• Pahiwatig: the role of "ambiguity" in Filipino American communication patterns -- Cultural and intercultural speech uses and meanings of the term -- Lesbian history and politics of identites -- The chicken haulers and the high liners: CB talk among interstate truckers -- Tighten me up: reflecting and maintaining ethnic identity through daily interactions in the African American-owned beauty salon -- Communicating a Latina identity: becoming different, doing difference, and being different -- Communicating deadhead identity: exploring identity from a cultural communication perspective -- I want you to talk for me: an ethnography of communication of the Osage Indian -- Building a shared future across the divide: identity and conflict in Cyprus -- "Where I come from is where I want to be": communicating Franco American ethnicity -- Negotiating cultural identity: strategies for belonging -- Negotiating cultural identity in the classroom -- "Perpetual foreigner": in search of Asian Americans' identity and otherness -- Personal Journey: my struggle between Cambodian and Chinese identities -- A little bit Black--but not all the way.

ISBN

• 0742517381
• 9780742517387
• 074251739X
• 9780742517394

LCCN

2003011933

OCLC

• ocm52348906
• 52348906
• SCSB-8803270

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library