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1 online resource (xxiii, 176 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Preface : Why Filipinos? -- Introduction : Filipino Community Formation on the Internet -- Problematizing Diaspora : If Nation, Culture, and Homeland Are Constructed, Why Bother with Diasporic Identity? -- Selling Out One's Culture : The Imagined Homeland and Authenticity -- "Ain't I a Filipino (Woman)?" : Filipina as Gender Marker -- Laughter in the Rain : Jokes as Membership and Resistance -- E Pluribus or E Pluribus Unum? : Can There Be Unity in Diversity? -- Appendix A : Studying the Definition of "Filipino" -- Appendix B : You May be Married to a Filipina if -- Appendix C : Are You Really Filipino? |
| Summary |
Building Diaspora heralds an important development in cultural studies, ethnic studies, the sociology of media, and globalization. Emily Ignacio brings an extended, incisive empirical investigation that is still quite rare in the theory-heavy yet data-light field of cyberspace cultural studies. She carefully crafts a framework in which to showcase the itinerant ideas and desires of Filipinos talking to each other from various geographical locations." and amp;mdash;Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignThe dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provided. |
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Filipino Americans -- Social conditions.
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Filipino Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Filipino Americans -- Race identity.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Community life -- United States.
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Transnationalism.
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Philippines -- Relations -- United States.
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United States -- Relations -- Philippines.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ignacio, Emily, 1970- Building diaspora. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005 0813535131 081353514X (DLC) 2004011749 (OCoLC)55502855 |
| ISBN |
0813537444 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813537443 (electronic bk.) |
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