基本説明
Shows how people break down the popular "margins vs. mainstream" conception of group identity and construct a "lived hybridity."
Full Description
How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their professional lives? Do minority and immigrant groups, in particular, act "ethnic" at home, "American" at work, "racial" in pan-ethnic spaces? Managing Multicultural Lives moves past this common assumption and demonstrates how minorities actually bring together contrasting identities.
Using the words and experiences of Indian American and Korean American professionals themselves, Pawan Dhingra eloquently shows how people break down the popular "margins vs. mainstream" conception of group identity and construct a "lived hybridity." He offers new insight into minorities' experiences at work, at home, and in civil society. These Asian Americans' ability to handle group boundaries fluidly leads them to both resist and support stratified social patterns. It also indicates new, more nuanced understandings of immigrant adaptation, multiculturalism, and identity management that pertain to multiple types of immigrant groups.
Contents
Contents: Acknowledgmentsix 1. Introduction: Opening Up the Margins in the Mainstream000 2. Uncovering Asian Americas: Examining Korean Americans and Indian Americans in Texas000 3. Growing Up Takes (Identity) Work: Developing Ethnic Identities000 4. Model Americans, not Minorities: Racial Identities and Responses to Racism*000 5. Multiculturalism on the Job: The Work Domain000 6. Aspiring to be Authentic: The Home Domain000 7. Becoming Cultural Citizens: Leisure and Civil Society Domains000 8. Conclusion: Reconciling Identities, Recognizing Constraints000 Appendix - questions000 Notes000 Bibliography000 Index000
