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18%OFFSandra Grady - Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America (Folklore Stud in a Multicultural World) - 9780299303242 - V9780299303242
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Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America (Folklore Stud in a Multicultural World)

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Description for Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America (Folklore Stud in a Multicultural World) Paperback. A glimpse into the lives of African refugee teens, as they negotiate the differences between African and American ideas about the transition from childhood to adulthood. Of interest to social services workers and educators as well as scholars of folklore, anthropology, African studies, and child development. Series: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHM; JKS; JNSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 265.
Changing from child to young adult is difficult everywhere. But to experience childhood in continuous flight from conflict, then move into adolescence as a refugee in a radically different culture, is a more than usually complicated transition for teens and for their parents, communities, teachers, and social workers.

Improvised Adolescence explores how teenagers from southern Somalia, who spent much of their childhood in East African refugee camps, are adapting to resettlement in the American Midwest. The collapse of the Somali state in 1991, and subsequent chaos in the Horn of Africa, disrupted the lives of these young people educationally, culturally, and developmentally. Folklorist Sandra Grady has intermittently observed the lifeworld of these teens—their homes, their entertainment choices, their interaction with classmates and teachers at school, and their plans for the future—for more than seven years to understand the cultural tools they’ve used in their journey from this disrupted childhood. They negotiate two sets of cultural expectations: in the resettled Somali Bantu community, traditional rites of passage continue to mark the change from child to adult; in the surrounding U.S. culture, an unfamiliar in-between category—“adolescent”—delays adulthood. Offering analysis that is both engaging and theoretically grounded, Grady tracks the emergence in this immigrant community of an improvised adolescence.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299303242
SKU
V9780299303242
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About Sandra Grady
Sandra Grady earned her PhD in folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and worked in Kenya in the early 1990s. She is an applied linguist in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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