Lee D. Baker (ed.)

Life in America

Identity and Everyday Experience
Herausgeber: Baker, Lee

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today. While individuals stitch together complex identities based on everything from the hobbies they enjoy to the neighborhoods in which they live, these identities rarely conform to the quick and routine identification of people by race, gender, and age. By exploring this tension between identity and identification, one can begin to understand how people creatively confront the perks and perils of identity in the United States. Life in America offers a look at a wide range of subjects including: violence and video games, queer pilgrimages to San Francisco, Filipina critiques of "sleeping around," and the significance of "lowriders" in Hispano/Chicano culture. Framed by a lively introduction, this book provides readers with a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means to be American.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 177mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 948g
• ISBN-13: 9781405105637
• ISBN-10: 1405105631
• Artikelnr.: 21019396

Autorenporträt

Lee D. Baker is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University. He is author of From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (1998). He is president elect of the Society for the Anthropology of North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Identity and Everyday Life in America.

Part I: Conditions of Identity, Violence, and Technologies.

Part II: Church, Family, and the Dynamics Post-Civil RightsMovement.

Part III: Consumption, Class, and Traditions of Negotiation andInvestment.

Part IV: The Politics and Perils of Assimilation.

Part V: More Than Consumption: Experiencing Gender, Class, andRace.

Part VI: Policing Blackness, Authenticity, and the SoulPatrol.

Part VII: Privilege, Power, and Anxiety of the Norm.

Part VIII: Language, History, and Specificity.

Index

Rezensionen

"This rich volume can be recommended to both advanced scholars ofAmerican culture and beginners in this field. The former can find amultitude of quite recent applications of approaches they arealready familiar with; the latter may wonder at the dizzyingvarieties of American experience, as well as look with disbelief atthe multitude."
Anthropologie

"Lee Baker has pulled together and provided an extremely usefulconceptual frame for some of the best social analysis on currenttrends in the cultural practices of identity and identification inUS society. This collection is a 'must read' for anyoneinterested in demystifying identity politics and understanding thecomplexities, pluralities, and common ground of culturalcitizenship in the USA as it is changing in the new millennium."Faye V. Harrison, University of Tennessee

"American higher education's longstanding myths aboutcultural assimilation and equal access for all have given way to anew scholarly literature, which rigorously critiques the structuresof identity, inequality, and power. In this timely and provocativereader, brilliant anthropologist Lee Baker has selected anoutstanding collection of essays about the complex politics ofcultural diversity. Life in America provides an insightfulexploration into the major contemporary debates and issues thatdefine studies of race, gender, sexuality, and class in Americansociety." Manning Marable, Columbia University

"Life in America is a user's guide to everyday lifeand all its contradictory complexity, an indispensable inventory ofpractices and patterns in US society that produce both creativeconnections and corrosive conflicts, stimulating similarities anddisturbing differences." George Lipsitz, University ofCalifornia, San Diego