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Improvised adolescence : Somali Bantu teenage refugees in America
- Title
- Improvised adolescence : Somali Bantu teenage refugees in America / Sandra Grady.
- Author
- Grady, Sandra
- Publication
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 158 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- Explores how teens from southern Somalia, who spent much of their childhood in East African refugee camps, are adapting to resettlement in the American Midwest, negotiating two sets of cultural expectations, those of the resettled Somali Bantu community and those of the surrounding US culture.
- Series Statement
- Folklore studies in a multicultural world
- Uniform Title
- Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the Somali Bantu -- The new village : the construction of Somali Bantu identity in everyday life -- Attaining adulthood 1 : rites of passage in traditional African contexts -- Feminine and masculine on display : media consumption and gender models -- Attaining adulthood 2 : adolescence, identity, and FGC in diaspora -- No ritual left behind : schools and American rites of passage -- Celebrating adulthood : wedding ritual and the celebration of identity -- Identities in development : culture, gender, and life cycle in diaspora -- Afterword : from adolescence into adulthood.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1474
- ISBN
- 9780299303242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0299303241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780299303235 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014030780
- OCLC
- 888401164
- Author
- Grady, Sandra, author.
- Title
- Improvised adolescence : Somali Bantu teenage refugees in America / Sandra Grady.
- Publisher
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Folklore studies in a multicultural worldFolklore studies in a multicultural world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1474