Title Improvised adolescence : Somali Bantu teenage refugees in America / Sandra Grady.

Publication Info.	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource.
Series	Folklore studies in a multicultural world
	Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Note	Includes index.
	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: The Somali Bantu; 1. The New Village: The Construction of Somali Bantu Identity in Everyday Life; 2. Attaining Adulthood 1: Rites of Passage in Traditional African Contexts; 3. Feminine and Masculine on Display: Media Consumption and Gender Models; 4. Attaining Adulthood 2: Adolescence, Identity, and FGC in Diaspora; 5. No Ritual Left Behind: Schools and American Rites of Passage; 6. Celebrating Adulthood: Wedding Ritual and the Celebration of Identity; 7. Identities in Development: Culture, Gender, and Life Cycle in Diaspora.
	Afterword: From Adolescence into AdulthoodWorks Cited; Index.
Language	English.
Subject	Teenage refugees -- United States.
	Refugees -- Somalia.
	Somali American teenagers.
	Bantu-speaking peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
	Somalis -- United States -- Social life and customs.
	Somalis -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	Gender & Ethnic Studies.
	Social Sciences.
	Ethnic & Race Studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Grady, Sandra. Improvised adolescence. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015] (DLC) 2014030780
ISBN	9780299303235 (electronic bk.)
	0299303233 (electronic bk.)

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