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Lives in Translation: Sikh Youth as British Citizens » (1st Edition)
Authors: Kathleen D. Hall
ISBN-13: 9780812218114, ISBN-10: 0812218116
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Kathleen D. Hall
Kathleen Hall is an anthropologist and teaches in the Education, Culture, and Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.
Book Synopsis
"A sophisticated and sympathetic portrayal of the 'dynamic tensions' faced by second-generation British Sikhs coming of age in Thatcherite Britain of the late 1980s and early 1990s. . . . An accessible book that can profitably be read by anthropologists, educators, and all those concerned with issues of citizenship and ethnic pluralism in modern nation-states."—Anthropos
Table of Contents
| 1 | Introduction: A Different Immigration Story | 1 |
| 2 | From Subjects to Citizens | 36 |
| 3 | The Politics of Language Recognition | 68 |
| 4 | "Becoming like Us" | 87 |
| 5 | Mediated Traditions | 124 |
| 6 | "You Can't Be Religious and Be Westernized" | 148 |
| 7 | "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian" | 170 |
| 8 | Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and the Life Path | 194 |
| Epilogue: An Unfinished Story | 204 | |
| Notes | 207 | |
| Works Cited | 299 | |
| Index | 249 | |
| Acknowledgments | 255 |
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