Unresolved Identities Discourse, Ambivalence, and Urban Immigrant Students

Name: Unresolved Identities Discourse, Ambivalence, and Urban Immigrant Students
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ISBN: 9781438430584

ISBN-10: 1438430582

ISBN-13: 9781438430584

Edition: 2010

Authors: Bic Ngo, Deborah P. Britzman

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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…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Urban Schools as War Zones


War Babies and Comeback Kids


Confining Immigrant Identities


Unresolved Identities


Resisting Resolution


Undercutting the Inside/Outside Opposition


A Note on Methodology


Notes


References


Index