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Desi Land : Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley /
"Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or "Desis," define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Subjects: |
Americains d'origine sud-asiatique
> Identite ethnique
> Californie
> Santa Clara, Vallee de (Santa Clara)
South Asian American teenagers
> California
> Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
> Ethnic identity.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or "Desis," define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001 Shankar spent many months "kickin' it" with Desi teenagers at three Silicon Valley high schools, and she has since followed their lives and stories. The diverse high-school students who populate Desi Land are Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, from South Asia and other locations; they include first- to fourth-generation immigrants whose parents' careers vary from assembly-line workers to engineers and CEOs. By analyzing how Desi teens' conceptions and realizations of success are influenced by community values, cultural practices, language use, and material culture, she offers a nuanced portrait of diasporic formations in a transforming urban region."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780822389231 |