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Doing ethnicity: Ethnic wordplay amongst youths

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The article illustrates ethnicity as a social construction by highlighting how students use ethnically based concepts to categorize each other as well as the Other. Although the concepts have ethnic connotations, they are mainly concerned with matters of style and behaviour. They are therefore open, fluid and inclusive because the students can alternate between the categories. The analyses draw on 1 year of fieldwork in two eighth grade classes in which all students have experience of migration within their families.

Source: Childhood

DOI: 10.1177/0907568216682305

Author: Layal Kasselias Wiltgren

Institution: Linköping University

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Identity and Representation

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: Linköpings Universitet