Elusive culture : schooling, race, and identity in global times
"Elusive Culture is an ethnographic study of youth engaged in a passionate quest for identity in global times. It explores questions of identity and culture at a Toronto high school, a space wherein teachers and students alike shift and slide in relation to the policies and practices of anti-racism, multiculturalism, and the competing discourses of identity. Drawing on personal observations, conversations with students and teachers, experimental work in drama, use of video, and student writings, Yon develops a complex view of identity and culture, one attuned to the ambivalent and contradictory processes of everyday life."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2000
Case studies
xiv, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
9780791444818, 9780791444825, 0791444813, 0791444821
41326286
Mapping the field
The discursive space of schooling
Portraits of identity
Talk of race and identity
Gendering race and racializing gender
Toward an understanding of elusive culture