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Improvised Adolescence : Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America / Sandra Grady.

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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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
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Subject
  • Somalis > Cultural assimilation > United States
  • Somalis > United States > Social life and customs
  • Bantu-speaking peoples > Cultural assimilation > United States
  • Somali American teenagers
  • Refugees > Somalia
  • Teenage refugees > United States
Note
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780299303242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0299303241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780299303235 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2014030780
OCLC
  • 888401164
  • SCSB-11693213
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library