Choosing Their Own Style

Identity Emergence Among Haitian Youth in Quebec

Scooter Pegram (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2005
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
9780820478685 (ISBN)

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Choosing Their Own Style examines identity issues among Haitian youth in Québec. Since Québec is a Francophone society in Anglophone North America, linguistic and cultural confusion often causes immigrants to assume multiple identities in order to fit in. Examining how young Haitians – an integral part of the provincial mosaic – are influenced by this complicated social and cultural paradigm, this book illustrates how Haitian youth are currently identifying and expressing themselves in Québec, and demonstrates how they resist categorization into a fixed ethnocultural group, creating a distinct, still-emerging societal and cultural classification of their own.

The Author: Scooter Pégram is Professor of French and Minority Studies at Indiana University Northwest. As a sociolinguist and cultural researcher, he has extensive experience investigating youth from immigrant and ethnocultural communities across North America on topics regarding identity, acceptance, racism, integration, gender, bilingualism, various social issues, in addition to related linguistic topic areas as they concern language shift, change, variation, and maintenance. From Québec, Dr. Pégram holds a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in Francophone studies with a concentration on sociolinguistics and ethnic studies. His current research interests include subjects relating to hip hop culture and identity in the Francophone world.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.7.2005
Zusatzinfo	34 tables, 3 graphs
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780820478685 / 9780820478685
Zustand	Neuware