Encounters with American ethnic cultures / edited by Philip L. Kilbride, Jane C. Goodale, Elizabeth R. Ameisen (in collaboration with Carolyn G. Friedman).

Bibl.: p. 340-359. - Contents: Introduction. Ethnic culture analysis: a course of study / Jane C. Goodale amd Philip L. Kilbride; Methodology / Elizabeth R. Ameisen and Carolyn G. Friedman. 1. Black and WASP in American cultural experience: the invisible ones. Exclusivity in an ethnic elite: racial prejudice as boundary maintenance / Elizabeth R. Ameisen; Africans and African-Americans: an ethnohistorical view and symbolic analysis of food habits / Carolyn G. Friedman. 2. Self- chosen ethnicity. Unique Americans: the Welsh-American ethnic group in the Philadelphia area / Lorraine Murray; Irish-Americans and Irish dance: self -chosen ethnicity / Erin McGauley Hebard; Art and identity: Ukrainian- American ethnicity / Jennifer Krier. 3. Interpretations of gender and ethnicity: the Lubavitcher experience. Equality does not mean sameness: the role of women within the Lubavitcher marriage / Philip Baldinger; Strategies for strength: women and personal empowerment in Lubavitcher Hasidism / Gita Srinivasan. 4. Ethnicity and religion: the persistence of collective representations. Our lives revolve around the holidays: holidays in the transmission of Jewish ethnicity / Anna Dahlem; Fayetteville or Raleigh: an analysis of an American Indian Baptist church / Beth Batten; Issues in Greek orthodoxy that define and maintain Greek- American ethnicity / Karen L. Belsley; Es como si fuera la casa de uno: the role of the community church in maintaining Puerto Rican ethnicity / Monica Schoch-Spana. 5. Dislocation and ethnicity. Cambodian marriage: marriage and how it is changing among Cambodian refugees in Philadelphia / Rebecca C. Popenoe; Ethnic expression in a Jewish street person / Andrew Millstein; Conclusion / Philip L. Kilbride and Jane C. Goodale.

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