The Street Boy Identity: An Alternate Strategy of Boston's Chinese-Americans.

Kendis, Kaoru Oguri; Kendis, Randall Jay

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ERIC Number: EJ142208

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Publication Date: 1976

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The Street Boy Identity: An Alternate Strategy of Boston's Chinese-Americans

Kendis, Kaoru Oguri; Kendis, Randall Jay

Urban Anthropology, 5, 1, 1-18, Spr 76

Notes that while the street boy strategy does not emerge fully developed, the boys are deliberately trying to forge a new and hybrid identity for themselves, accepting those aspects of each culture that will serve to meet their needs as they see them, and rejecting those aspects of each that will not. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, Community Role, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Groups, Identification (Psychology), Minority Group Children, Self Concept, Youth Problems

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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts (Boston)

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