Screen LibraryLives in translation : sikh youth as british citizens /
"A sophisticated and sympathetic portrayal of the 'dynamic tensions' faced by second-generation British Sikhs coming of age in Thatcherite Britain of the late 1980s and early 1990s. . . . An accessible book that can profitably be read by anthropologists, educators, and all those conce...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2002 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"A sophisticated and sympathetic portrayal of the 'dynamic tensions' faced by second-generation British Sikhs coming of age in Thatcherite Britain of the late 1980s and early 1990s. . . . An accessible book that can profitably be read by anthropologists, educators, and all those concerned with issues of citizenship and ethnic pluralism in modern nation-states." Anthropos |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780812200676 |
| Index Number: | DA125 |
| CLC: | D756.162 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: A Different Immigration Story -- 2. From Subjects to Citizens -- 3. The Politics of Language Recognition -- 4. "Becoming like Us" -- 5. Mediated Traditions -- 6. "You Can't Be Religious and Be Westernized" -- 7. "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian" -- 8. Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and the Life Path -- Epilogue: An Unfinished Story -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |