Learning to Belong in the World An Ethnography of Asian American Girls /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Tokunaga, Tomoko (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Educational sociology.; Sociology.; Cultural studies.; Sociology of Education.; Gender Studies.; Cultural Studies.

This book provides a complex and intricate portrayal of Asian American high school girls - which has been an under-researched population - as cultural meditators, diasporic agents, and community builders who negotiate displacement and attachment in challenging worlds of the in-between. Based on two...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Focusing on the experiences of Asian American girls
• Chapter 2 Searching for Belonging in-between homelands
• Chapter 3 Creating Ibasho in-between school walls
• Chapter 4 Fostering Belonging and Identity at a community-based organization
• Chapter 5 Forming Identity and Girlhood through consumer culture
• Chapter 6 Constructing imagined homes in the deterritorialized world
• Chapter 7 Lessons and messages from borderland dwellers
• Epilogue.