Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140510564X ISBN 13: 9781405105644

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today.

• Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means to be American.
• Explores the tension between identity and identification to help readers begin to understand how people creatively confront the perks and perils of identity in the United States.
• 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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 140510564X
• ISBN 13: 9781405105644
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Baker Lee D.