Elusive Culture Daniel Yon, 2000

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Elusive CultureDaniel Yon, 2000

• Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times
• Psy 318

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Elusive Culture

• What is elusive about culture?
• How does culture intersect with race in the
  portraits of youth?
• How do culture, race, and identity intersect for
  the youths in this ethnography?
• What does it mean to construct identities in
  global times?

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Elusive Culture

• The unsettled places of diasporic identities
• Necessity of Identity, p. 58
• I am NOT, I AM, I AM? p. 59
• Roots and Routes, 64
• Where do these concepts connect with Eriksons
  ideas? Helms? Phinney?
• Charts of Racial Ethnic Identities (pdf file)

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Elusive Culture

• Last week you drew your own maps that illustrated
  the routes and roots of your ethnic racial
  identities
• Thinking back on those maps consider the
  following from Yon and see how they connect with
  your own experiences
• If, it seems, one can be spoken to and engaged
  in conversation then one is racially normalized
  p. 81
• Those different from white Canadians are
  saturated by culture p. 77