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Dhingra, Pawan.

Managing multicultural lives Asian American professionals and the challenge of multiple identities / [electronic resource] : Pawan Dhingra. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007. - x, 316 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-307) and index.

Introduction: opening up the margins in the mainstream -- Uncovering Asian Americas: examining Korean Americans and Indian Americans in Texas -- Growing up takes (identity) work: developing ethnic identities -- Model Americans and minorities: racial identities and responses to racism -- Multiculturalism on the job: the work domain -- Aspiring to authenticity: the home domain -- Becoming cultural citizens: the leisure and civil society domains -- Conclusion: reconciling identities, recognizing constraints -- Appendix: Questions -- Notes -- Bibliography.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cultural fusion--United States.
Group identity--United States.
East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Korean Americans--Ethnic identity.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HM1272 / .D45 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.800973