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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 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Welcome to Desi land
- California, here we come, right back where we started from
- Defining Desi teen culture
- Living and desiring the Desi bling life
- Desi fashions of speaking
- Being fobulous on multicultural day
- Remodeling the model minority stereotype
- Dating on the DL and arranged marriages
- In the new millennium.