| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I: Historical Perceptions and "From-Here" Memory -- 1. Our Own Boat People: The Norfolk Journal and Guide and the Haitian Refugees, 1979-1986 / Charles H. Ford -- 2. School Integration as Internal Immigration: The Journey of the Norfolk Seventeen / Stephanie G. Walker -- 3. Transcultural Remembrance: Stolpersteine, Silent Promises, and the European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010 / Sonja Georgi -- Part II: Immigration and Citizenship -- 4. Integration Courses and the German Naturalization Test: Creating Good Citizens? / Janine Werner -- 5. Linguistic Identity and Ethnic Transformations in the United States: The Hispanic Community in the Media / Isabel Hermosín Killough -- 6. Broken Mirrors: Race, Historical Memory, and Citizenship in 20th/21st- Century France / Geoffroy de Laforcade -- Part III: Growing Up "Other" -- 7. Ethnic Transformations at School in North Rhine-Westphalia, Virginia, Pécs, and Autobiographical Novels -- or Can Transcultural Impulses Serve/Save our Schoolchildren? / Cathy Covell Waegner -- 8. German Turkish Teens: Second and Third Generation Transcultural Identity / Melanie Jäger -- Part IV: "Come-Heres" at Work -- 9. When Jobs Become Ethnic / Frankie Copeland -- 10. Coming out of the Dark: An Examination of How Social Capital is Used in Hispanic-Owned Small Businesses in Virginia / Robert K. Perkins -- Part V: Transcultural Encounters in the Media -- 11. Race Matters in Cologne: Migration, Aesthetics, and Popular Culture / Mita Banerjee -- 12. Wallraff's 2009 Schwarz auf Weiss: Investigative Journalism in Cinematic Blackface / Susanne Engelmann and Florian Nölting -- 13. Cinema of Acceptance: Changing Perspectives on the Immigrant Other in Recent American and European Film / Page R. Laws -- Prospects / Geoffroy de Laforcade |
| Summary |
No other issue in our times of globalization has aroused such passionate debate as the increasingly complex transborder movements of people of all ethnicities, with the self-perceived ""from-heres"" often struggling to maintain the illusion of separateness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Virginia
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Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany -- North Rhine-Westphalia
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Ethnic attitudes -- Virginia
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Ethnic attitudes -- Germany -- North Rhine-Westphalia
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Cultural studies.
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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Media studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Ethnic attitudes
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Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation
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Virginia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Germany -- North Rhine-Westphalia
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Virginia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Waegner, Cathy Covell, 1948-
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Laws, Page R
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Laforcade, Geoffroy de
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| LC no. |
2011431040 |
| ISBN |
1443827754 |
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9781443827751 |
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1283142279 |
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9781283142274 |
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9786613142276 |
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6613142271 |
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