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Lives in Translation : Sikh Youth As British Citizens.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200676
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lives in TranslationLOC classification:
  • DA125.S57 -- H35 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Lives in Translation -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: A Different Immigration Story -- 2. From Subjects to Citizens -- 3. The Politics of Language Recognition -- 4. "Becoming like Us -- 5. Mediated Traditions -- 6. "You Can't Be Religious and Be Westernized -- 7. "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian -- 8. Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and the Life Path -- Epilogue: An Unfinished Story -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "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.
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Cover -- Lives in Translation -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: A Different Immigration Story -- 2. From Subjects to Citizens -- 3. The Politics of Language Recognition -- 4. "Becoming like Us -- 5. Mediated Traditions -- 6. "You Can't Be Religious and Be Westernized -- 7. "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian -- 8. Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and the Life Path -- Epilogue: An Unfinished Story -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

"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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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