Life in America Identity and Everyday Experience [Paperback]

• 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.

Introduction: Identity and Everyday Life` in America (Lee D. Baker).

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

1. Cyborg Violence: Bursting Borders and Bodies with Queer Machines (Anne Allison).

2. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation but Were Afraid to Ask (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco).

3. Dousing the Fire or Fanning the Flames: The Role of Human Relations Practitioners in Intergroup Conflicts (Judith Goode).

Part II: Church, Family, and the Dynamics of Post-Civil Rights Migration.

4. What it Means to be Christian: The Role of Religion in the Construction of Ethnic Identity and Boundary among Second-Generation Korean Americans (Kelly H. Chong).

5. The Normal American Family as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants (Karen Pyke).

6. I Really Do Feel I'm 1.5! : The Construction of Self and Community by Young Korean Americans (Kyelãq