SOC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Erving Goffman, San Francisco State University, Demography Of The United States
15 Oct 2016
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Sociology 215 lecture 8 youth cultures and identities. Key terms: south asian, diaspora, silicon valley, desi, dot-com boom, amrika, arranged marriages, hip-hop, hip-hop signifiers, authentic identity, cultural capital. Desi land: written by prof. shalini shankar who is an associate professor of anthropology at. She completed her doctorate at new york university in 2003: according to the united nations, south asia may comprise the nations of afghanistan, Bangladesh, bhutan, india, iran, maldives, nepal, pakistan, sri lanka, and other definitions include myanmar and tibet: the term desi, the hindi word for countryman, refers to south asians living outside the. The term also signals the inception of a particular type of diasporic, racially marked, generationally influenced consciousness at the beginning of the new millennium (shankar 2008:1). Although desi families in silicon valley do not openly discuss class, the unending focus on homes, cars, jobs, and other markers of wealth underscores the centrality of class in their communities (shankar 2008:10).
