TY - BOOK ID - 77864275 TI - Encounters with American ethnic cultures AU - Kilbride, Philip Leroy AU - Goodale, Jane C AU - Ameisen, Elizabeth R PY - 1990 SN - 0817383751 0585140928 9780585140926 9780817383756 0817304711 9780817304713 PB - Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Minorities KW - Ethnicity KW - Ethnic minorities KW - Foreign population KW - Minority groups KW - Persons KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Discrimination KW - Ethnic relations KW - Majorities KW - Plebiscite KW - Race relations KW - Segregation KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Philadelphia Region (Pa.) KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Social life and customs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77864275 AB - Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the ""invisible"" (WASPS and African-Americans); ""self-chosen"" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); ""gender-related"" (the Lubovitcher); ""religious"" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puerto Rican); and ""dislocated"" (Cambodians and the homeless). Ethnographic fieldwork focuses an ins ER -