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Transculturality and perceptions of the immigrant other : "from-heres" and ''come-heres" in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia /

No other issue in our times of globalization has aroused such passionate debate as the increasingly complex transborder movements of people of all ethnicities, with the self-perceived ""from-heres"" often struggling to maintain the illusion of separateness.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Waegner, Cathy Covell, 1948-, Laws, Page R., Laforcade, Geoffroy de
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Historical Perceptions and "From-Here" Memory
  • 1. Our Own Boat People: The Norfolk Journal and Guide and the Haitian Refugees, 1979-1986 / Charles H. Ford
  • 2. School Integration as Internal Immigration: The Journey of the Norfolk Seventeen / Stephanie G. Walker
  • 3. Transcultural Remembrance: Stolpersteine, Silent Promises, and the European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010 / Sonja Georgi
  • Part II: Immigration and Citizenship
  • 4. Integration Courses and the German Naturalization Test: Creating Good Citizens? / Janine Werner
  • 5. Linguistic Identity and Ethnic Transformations in the United States: The Hispanic Community in the Media / Isabel Hermosín Killough
  • 6. Broken Mirrors: Race, Historical Memory, and Citizenship in 20th/21st- Century France / Geoffroy de Laforcade
  • Part III: Growing Up "Other"
  • 7. Ethnic Transformations at School in North Rhine-Westphalia, Virginia, Pécs, and Autobiographical Novels
  • or Can Transcultural Impulses Serve/Save our Schoolchildren? / Cathy Covell Waegner
  • 8. German Turkish Teens: Second and Third Generation Transcultural Identity / Melanie Jäger
  • Part IV: "Come-Heres" at Work
  • 9. When Jobs Become Ethnic / Frankie Copeland
  • 10. Coming out of the Dark: An Examination of How Social Capital is Used in Hispanic-Owned Small Businesses in Virginia / Robert K. Perkins
  • Part V: Transcultural Encounters in the Media
  • 11. Race Matters in Cologne: Migration, Aesthetics, and Popular Culture / Mita Banerjee
  • 12. Wallraff's 2009 Schwarz auf Weiss: Investigative Journalism in Cinematic Blackface / Susanne Engelmann and Florian Nölting
  • 13. Cinema of Acceptance: Changing Perspectives on the Immigrant Other in Recent American and European Film / Page R. Laws
  • Prospects / Geoffroy de Laforcade.