Unresolved Identities: Discourse, Ambivalence, and Urban Immigrant Students - Couverture souple

Ngo, Bic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438430582 ISBN 13 : 9781438430584

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2010

Synopsis

In her ethnographic study of Lao American students at an urban, public high school, Bic Ngo shows how simplistic accounts of these students smooth over unfinished, precarious identities and contested social relations. Exploring the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses that simplify and confine their experiences within binary categories of good/bad, traditional/modern and success/failure, she unmasks and examines the stories we tell about them, and unsettles the hegemony of discourses that frame identities within discrete dualisms. Rather than cohesive, the identity negotiations of Lao American students are responses that modify, resist, or echo these discourses. Ngo argues that while Lao American students are changing what it means to be "urban" and "immigrant" youth, most people are unable to read them as doing so, and instead see the youth as confused, backward, and problematic. By illuminating the discursive practices of identity, this study underscores the need to conceptualize urban, immigrant identities as contradictory, fractured and unresolved.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bic Ngo is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota and coeditor (with Kevin K. Kumashiro) of Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438430582
• ISBN 13: 9781438430584
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 146
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• Personne responsable: non disponible