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Encounters with American ethnic cultures / edited by Philip L. Kilbride, Jane C. Goodale, Elizabeth R. Ameisen in collaboration with Carolyn G. Friedman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, �1990.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585140928
  • 9780585140926
  • 9780817383756
  • 0817383751
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Encounters with American ethnic cultures.DDC classification:
  • 305.8/00974811 20
LOC classification:
  • F158.9.A1 E53 1990eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Black and WASP in American cultural experience -- pt. 2. Self-chosen ethnicity -- pt. 3. Interpretations of gender and ethnicity -- pt. 4. Ethnicity and religion -- pt. 5. Dislocation and ethnicity.
Summary: Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans); "self-chosen" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); "gender-related" (the Lubovitcher); "religious" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puerto Rican); and "dislocated" (Cambodians and the homeless). Ethnographic fieldwork focuses an insider's view on the meaning of ethnic ex.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-359) and index.

Print version record.

pt. 1. Black and WASP in American cultural experience -- pt. 2. Self-chosen ethnicity -- pt. 3. Interpretations of gender and ethnicity -- pt. 4. Ethnicity and religion -- pt. 5. Dislocation and ethnicity.

Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans); "self-chosen" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); "gender-related" (the Lubovitcher); "religious" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puerto Rican); and "dislocated" (Cambodians and the homeless). Ethnographic fieldwork focuses an insider's view on the meaning of ethnic ex.

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