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Title Encounters with American ethnic cultures / edited by Philip L. Kilbride, Jane C. Goodale, Elizabeth R. Ameisen in collaboration with Carolyn G. Friedman
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Black and WASP in American cultural experience -- pt. 2. Self-chosen ethnicity -- pt. 3. Interpretations of gender and ethnicity -- pt. 4. Ethnicity and religion -- pt. 5. Dislocation and ethnicity
Summary Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans); "self-chosen" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); "gender-related" (the Lubovitcher); "religious" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puerto Rican); and "dislocated" (Cambodians and the homeless). Ethnographic fieldwork focuses an insider's view on the meaning of ethnic ex
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-359) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnicity -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Minorities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Manners and customs
Minorities
SUBJECT Philadelphia Region (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Form Electronic book
Author Kilbride, Philip Leroy
Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter), 1926-2008.
Ameisen, Elizabeth R
LC no. 89033864
ISBN 0585140928
9780585140926
9780817383756
0817383751