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"Dancing the tales of China": An ethnographic case of embodied construction of ethnicity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Dancing the tales of China": An ethnographic case of embodied construction of ethnicity./
Author:	Wilcox, Hui Niu.
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3586.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3148357
ISBN:	0496069055

"Dancing the tales of China": An ethnographic case of embodied construction of ethnicity.
Wilcox, Hui Niu.

"Dancing the tales of China": An ethnographic case of embodied construction of ethnicity. - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3586.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2004.

My dissertation research is an ethnographic study of ethnic construction among Chinese immigrants in the Twin Cities through the cultural practice of dance. I collected data through 300 hours of participant observation with a local Chinese dance group, 18 in-depth interviews with 22 interviewees, and extensive content analysis of textual and visual data. There are two key findings: First, the construction of ethnic identity is a complex, multi-dimensional process, due to the diversity within the Chinese immigrant community in terms of generation, race, class, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation, and due to the community's location in the racial/ethnic hierarchy of American society. Second, ethnic construction is an embodied process: not only is dance a site for symbolic performance of Chinese ethnic identity, it also provides a site for the construction of Chinese American habitus and identity. I examine ways in which race/ethnicity and gender/sexuality are both performed and performative, that is, socially and discursively constructed. Such examination leads to the insight that these two groups of categories intersect in that racial/ethnic stereotypes are often gendered and sexualized: Chinese immigrants encounter stereotypes that are either hypersexual (overly feminine women) or hyposexual (emasculate men). However, racialization and sexualization of a subordinate group is not simply imposed by the mainstream; the immigrant community itself contributes to these processes by internalizing and performing stereotypes, and by perpetuating patriarchal values within the community. I analyze the dual, intertwining processes of external imposition and internal assertion through paying attention to the connection between narrative and identity, and to the role of space, place and time in the process of embodied ethnic construction. In conclusion, the ethnographic case of this local Chinese dance group illustrates the significance of the body, its movement, presentation and re-presentation in the construction of ethnic identity.

ISBN: 0496069055Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017474
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

"Dancing the tales of China": An ethnographic case of embodied construction of ethnicity.
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