Hybrid identities: theoretical and empirical examinations

Preliminary Material /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- Chapter One. Hybriddentities: Theoretical examinations /Keri E. Iyall Smith -- Chapter Two. Hybridity, transnationalism, and identity in the US-Mexican borderlands /Patrick Gun Cuninghame -- Chapter Three. Dubois and diasporic identity: The veil and the unveiling project /Judith R. Blau and Eric S. Brown -- Chapter Four. Disturbingly hybrid or distressingly patriarchal? Gender hybridity in a global environment /Fabienne Darling-Wolf -- Chapter Five. Gender and the hybrid identity: On passing through /Salvador Vidal-Ortiz -- Chapter Six. Bridging the theoretical gap: The diasporized hybrid in sociological theory /Melissa F. Weiner and Bedelia Nicola Richards -- Chapter Seven. Geoculture and popular culture: Carnivals, diasporas, and hybridities in the Americas /Keith Nurse -- Chapter Eight. The internal colony hybrid: Reformulating structure, culture, and agency /Roderick Bush -- Chapter Nine. An introduction to empirical examinations of hybridity /Patricia Leavy -- Chapter Ten. Conquest, colonization, and borderland identities: The World Of Ethnic Mexicans In The LOWER Rio Grande Valley, 1900–1930 /Trinidad Gonzales -- Chapter Eleven. Neither black nor white enough – and beyond black or white: The lived experiences of african-american women at predominantly white colleges /Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Emily Brooke Barko -- Chapter Twelve. Creating place from conflicted space: Bi/multi-racial Māori women's inclusion within New Zealand mental health services /Tess Moeke-Maxwell -- Chapter Thirteen. Women occupying the hybrid space: Second-generation Korean-American women negotiating choices regarding work and family /Helen Kim -- Chapter Fourteen. Hybrid identities in the Diaspora: Second-generation west indians in Brooklyn /Bedelia Nicola Richards -- Chapter Fifteen. Hybridized korean identities: The making of korean-americans and Joseonjok /Helene K. Lee -- Chapter Sixteen. One plus one equals three: Legal hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand /Alex Frame and Paul Meredith -- Chapter Seventeen. Occupying third space: Hybridity and identity matrices in the multiracial experience /David L. Brunsma and Daniel J. Delgado -- Author biographies /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- References /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- Index /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- Studies In critical social sciences /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy.

Hybrid identities continue to be predominant in minority or immigrant communities, but these are not the only sites of hybridity in the globalized world. Combining theoretical and empirical pieces, this book explores the theoretical work seeking to describe hybrid identities, and illustrates the application of these theories in empirical research