When a society or nation contains many cultures, large or small,
with differing institutional and organizations networks,
individuals and groups must, in order to successfully navigate
their passages within and between cultures, learn to act and react
to primary and secondary cultural orientations, which might be
labeled dominant and super-ordinate or non-dominant and
sub-ordinate. Under such a scenario, biculturalism exists. The
essays in this volume offer fresh theoretical and methodological
insights into biculturalism as an existing reality in many
socieities. The authors present a variety of methodological
strategies and techniques case studies, autoethnography, content
analysis, participant observation, the national survey, and
structured and unstructured interviews. Whereas some essays provide
a brief history as a point of reference to aid the reader in
understanding how and why biculturalism began and persists the
beginning of biculturalism, others do not.All essays, whether
written from social science or humanity perspectives, give the
readers a glimpse into the bicultural world of a particular people
or group. Hence, biculturalism is presented as it illustrates the
world of the following: a female African American intellectual;
German, Koreans, and Japanese immigrants, Koreans; South Asians;
two autoethnographic bicultural case studies; issues of identity
and biculturalism among Asians, Native Americans, whites, and
African Americans in the U.S.; and, a content analysis of Spanish
language programs for children, and essays analyzing biculturalism
among Jewish Americans and African Americans, and a critique of
Ralph Ellison's bicultural imperatives.Many of the essays will
analyze class, ethnic, and gender issues as they relate to the idea
of biculturality. The essays in this volume relate the bicultural
experience and remind the reader that this bicultural experience
may connect to ideas of acculturation, assimilation, marginality,
identity, ambivalence, super-ordinate, sub-ordination, and issues
related to insiders and outsiders, but a crucial theme in
biculturalism is the existence of two cultural streams and the fact
that individuals and groups may, over time, operate in both
streams, and deftly move within and between each, as opportunities
present themselves.
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