Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States

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Paul DiMaggio, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Rutgers University Press, Oct 13, 2010 - Social Science - 320 pages
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Migrants and the Transformation of Philadelphias Cultural Economy
23
2 A Howl to the Heavens
52
3 Inside and Outside the Box
72
3 Desis in and out of the House
89
4 The Intimate Circle
109
5 GenerAsians Learn Chinese
125
6 Unfinished Journey
155
7 Immigrant Art as Liminal Expression
176
8 Negotiating Memories of War
197
9 Miracles on the Border
214
10 Visual Culture and Visual Piety in Little Haiti
229
Notes on Contributors
273
Index
277
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PAUL DiMAGGIO is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, research director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of Social Organization at Princeton University. He is the editor of Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint. PATRICIA FERN-NDEZ-KELLY holds a joint position with the sociology department and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Her book, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier, was featured by Contemporary Sociology as one of the twenty-five favorite books of the late twentieth century.

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