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Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience

Lee Baker (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0563-7
Hardcover
464 pages
August 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.

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