Life In America: Identity And Everyday Experience

Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience

Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is afascinating collection of readings that explores how peoplenegotiate identity in the United States today. Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging andfascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means tobe American.Explores the tension between identity and identification tohelp readers begin to understand how people creatively confront theperks and perils of identity in the United States.Offers a look at a wide range of subjects including: violenceand video games, queer pilgrimages to San Francisco, Filipinacritiques of "sleeping around," and the significance of "lowriders"in Hispano/Chicano culture.