Choosing Their Own Style: Identity Emergence Among Haitian Youth in Québec

ISBN-13: 9780820478685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 184 str.

Pégram, Scooter

Opis

Choosing Their Own Style examines identity issues among Haitian youth in Quebec. Since Quebec is a Francophone society in Anglophone North America, linguistic and cultural confusion often causes immigrants to assume multiple identities in order to fit in. Examining how young Haitians an integral part of the provincial mosaic are influenced by this complicated social and cultural paradigm, this book illustrates how Haitian youth are currently identifying and expressing themselves in Quebec, and demonstrates how they resist categorization into a fixed ethnocultural group, creating a distinct, still-emerging societal and cultural classification of their own."

O autorze

The Author: Scooter Pégram is Professor of French and Minority Studies at Indiana University Northwest. As a sociolinguist and cultural researcher, he has extensive experience investigating youth from immigrant and ethnocultural communities across North America on topics regarding identity, acceptance, racism, integration, gender, bilingualism, various social issues, in addition to related linguistic topic areas as they concern language shift, change, variation, and maintenance. From Québec, Dr. Pégram holds a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in Francophone studies with a concentration on sociolinguistics and ethnic studies. His current research interests include subjects relating to hip hop culture and identity in the Francophone world.