Lives in Translation by Kathleen D Hall

Lives in Translation by Kathleen D Hall

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Investigates the cultural politics of immigration and citizenship, education and identity-formation among Sikh youth whose parents migrated to England from India and East Africa. This work chronicles the stories of Sikh youth, the cultural dilemmas they face, and the identities they perform as they navigate their own journeys to citizenship.

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Lives in Translation by Kathleen D Hall

Investigates the cultural politics of immigration and citizenship, education and identity-formation among Sikh youth whose parents migrated to England from India and East Africa. This work chronicles the stories of Sikh youth, the cultural dilemmas they face, and the identities they perform as they navigate their own journeys to citizenship.

"This is a brilliant ethnography, animated by a highly refined analysis of the ways race and cultural identity are forged in the public sphere, and sustained by extensive research"—Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University


"Hall offers a riveting account of evolving British identity—both minority and majority—at the cusp of the millennium, an account that can offer much to those interested in the cultural politics of other multicultural societies."—Anthropology and Education Quarterly


"Lives in Translation eloquently captures the voices of young Sikhs in northern England in the late twentieth century as they attempt to come to terms with structures of racial, caste, and class inequality."—International Journal of Punjab Studies


"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

Kathleen Hall is an anthropologist and teaches in the Education, Culture, and Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.
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ISBN 13 9780812218114
ISBN 10 0812218116
Title Lives in Translation
Author Kathleen D Hall
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Year published 2002-08-06
Number of pages 272
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