Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Bacon, Jean Leslie, 1962-

Title Life lines : community, family, and assimilation among Asian Indian immigrants / Jean Bacon.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.
Summary Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community - Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan area - bound by neither geographic proximity, nor institutional ties, and explores the processes through which ethnic identity is transmitted to the next generation. Bacon's study centres upon the engrossing portraits of five immigrant families, each one a complex tapestry woven from the distinctive voices of its family members. Both extensive field work among community organizations and analyses of ethnic media help Bacon expose the complicated interplay between the private social interactions of family life and the stylized rhetoric of "Indianness" that permeates public life.; This inventive analysis suggests that the process of assimilation which these families undergo parallels the assimilation process experienced by anyone who conceives of him or herself as a member of a distinctive community in search of a place in American society.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject East Indian Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Illinois -- Chicago.
East Indian Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Illinois -- Chicago.
East Indian Americans.
East Indian Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bacon, Jean Leslie, 1962- Life lines. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (DLC) 95049367
ISBN 1429415584 (electronic book)
9781429415583 (electronic book)
1280528311
9781280528316
9780195099737 (alkaline paper)
0195099737 (alkaline paper)
0195099729 (Cloth)
0195099737
9780195099720