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When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences..
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In response to the challenge of combining multi-sited work with the need for depth in the study of social worlds, multi-sited ethnography has established itself in recent years as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists. With its exploration and development of multi-sited ethnography through a number of empirical experiences from cutting-edge research, this book presents its theoretical and practical facets, charting their development and identifying the directions of new research which uses this method as a means of examining social phenomena. Owing to its clear contribution to a rapidly emerging field, "Multi-Sited Ethnography" will appeal to anyone studying social actors or organizations across places. As such, scholars within human geography, anthropology, sociology, development studies and migration studies will be equally interested in this volume..
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Motivated by a concern about the reproduction of social and econonmic inequities across generations, Natalie Nielsen undertook a multi-sited ethnographic study of three African American girls whose aspirations exceeded their mothers' level of educational and professional attainment. This study is broadly situated in social reproduction theory, but rather than studying the generational reproduction of low socio-economic standing, Dr. Nielsen concentrated on mechanisms that might aid urban youth of color in improving their standing in life--a process she calls social (non)reproduction. The study follows Star Princess and Tiffany" as they traverse their multiple worlds of home school church and youth organization. In the study Dr. Nielsen examines the girls' aspirations sources of adult social capital senses of control over the future and messages they hear about the future. ".
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