Telling the Right Story: Narrative as a Mechanism for Japanese American Ethnic Boundary Maintenance
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DOI: 10.1111/soin.12188
Abstract: This study conceptualizes ethnic grand narrative, a comprehensive story of a people, as a mechanism for maintaining and policing ethnic community boundaries. Such symbolic boundaries are shaped through relational processes of negotiation and contestation: boundary… read more here.
Keywords: story; telling right; community; story narrative ... See more keywords