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From the postbellum years through the civil rights movement, the marginal status experienced by the Creoles of color in La has served as the primary basis of Creole ethnic identity. Recently however, the marginalized Creoles have sought a new basis of identity as part of the larger black community, while maintaining their traditions & distinctiveness as a special group within that community. 32 References. Adapted from the source document.

Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children's "birth culture." However, transnational, transracial adoption also presents challenges to families who are trying to impart in their children cultural and racial identities that they themselves do not possess, while at the same time incorporating their own racial, ethnic, and religious identities. Many of their ideas are based on assumptions about how authentic Chinese and Chinese Americans practice Chinese culture. Based on a comparative ethnographic study of white and Asian American adoptive parents over an eight year period, How Chinese Are You? explores how white adoptive parents, adoption professionals, Chinese American adoptive parents, and teens adopted from China as children negotiate meanings of Chinese identity in the context of race, culture, and family. Viewing Chineseness as something produced, rather than inherited, Andrea Louie examines how the idea of "ethnic options" differs for Asian American versus white adoptive parents as they produce Chinese adoptee identities, while re-working their own ethnic, racial, and parental identities. Considering the broader context of Asian American cultural production, Louie analyzes how both white and Asian American adoptive parents engage in changing understandings of and relationships with "Chineseness" as a form of ethnic identity, racial identity, or cultural capital over the life course. Louie also demonstrates how constructions of Chinese culture and racial identity dynamically play out between parents and their children, and for Chinese adoptee teenagers themselves as they "come of age." How Chinese Are You? is an engaging and original study of the fluidity of race, ethnicity, and cultural identity in modern America

Colonial origins: race and slavery -- From African to African American: slave adaptation to the new world -- The formation of the master class -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- The growth of the cotton kingdom -- The world of the planters -- Life within the big house -- Masters and slaves: paternalism and exploitation -- Life in the slave quarters -- Slave resistance and slave rebellion -- The abolitionist impulse -- The politics of slavery -- Secession and Civil War -- Emancipation and the destruction of slavery.

As anti-gender movements gain momentum throughout Europe, using the concept of gender as a technical category may, in the long run, prove more self-destructive than useful. The author argues for the re-enchantment of feminist politics.

This text is a manifesto for building on diverse cultural strengths in international development. Gently but firmly, it demonstrates how and why cultural studies and anthropology have fallen short in application and, arguably, in terms of social science.

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the "material turn" in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world

The paper analyses, how a low level of cultural distance and a strong social and cultural integration affects second-generation immigrants' labour market chances. We address this question by means of a survey experiment carried out with human resources professionals in Switzerland. First, we analyse whether job applicants are evaluated more negatively if their parents stem from a country perceived to be culturally more distant from the host country and whether second-generation applicants whose profile conveys a strong attachment to their culture of origin (language) and engaging in social activities within their community, are evaluated more negatively by prospective employers. ; Bio-notes Flavia Fossati is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne and is affiliated with the Swiss national center for competence in research nccr – on the move. Her research interests include labour market and migration policy, comparative politics and welfare state research. Fabienne Liechti is a PhD candidate at the Swiss graduate school for public administration at the University of Lausanne. She holds a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Bern. Her research interests include labor market policies and activation, comparative and welfare state research. In her thesis she examines how employers value participation in activation measures when taking hiring decision. Giuliano Bonoli is Professor of social policy at the Swiss graduate school for public administration at the University of Lausanne. His work has focused on pension reform, labour market and family polices, with particular attention paid to the politics of welfare state transformation. He has published some fifty articles and chapters in edited books, as well as a few books. Among his key publications one can mention: Bonoli, G. (2013) The origins of active social policy. Active labour market policy and childcare in a comparative perspective, (Oxford, Oxford University Press). Daniel Auer is a PhD candidate at IDHEAP, University of Lausanne, and affiliated with the nccr – on the move, IP "Integration through Active Labor Market Policies" (Giuliano Bonoli). After his Bachelor studies in economics and political science in Vienna, he obtained his Master's degree in political science at the University of Zurich. His current research topics are immigrants' discrimination in the labor market and the effects of active labor market programs on individual and group-related disadvantages, such as a lack of education or migration background. Acknowledgements This research was completed thanks to the financial support of the Swiss National Centres of Competence in Research on Migration and Mobility "On the Move" and on Overcoming Vulnerability: Life course perspectives "LIVES". We would like to thank our research partners Daniel Oesch and Patrick McDonald for the excellent collaboration on this project.

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Methoden und Begriffe -- 3. Leben in der Tourismusregion Oberengadin -- 4. Leben im ländlichen Avers und Schams -- 5. Verbundenheiten und Zugehörigkeiten -- 6. Peripherie im Zentrum Europas -- 7. Transnational multilokale Lebenswelten -- 8. Migration als Potenzial für alpine Räume -- 9. Migration in Graubünden – eine Erfolgsgeschichte? -- 10. Bibliographie -- 11. Anhang