Born Glocal

Youth Identity and Suburban Spaces in the U.S. and Taiwan

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ID10890909
AuthorsShenglin Elijah Chang (0000-0001-8780-1537, Dr. Shenglin Elijah Chang is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University. Her book, The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture, was published by Stanford University Press in 2006., corresponding author), Willow Lung-Amam (0000-0001-6125-0896, Landscape Institute), Willow Lung Amam (Willow Lung Amam is a Ph.D. Candidate in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines the cultural landscape of ethnically diverse suburbs in the San Francisco Bay Area.)
Year2010
Volume36
Issue3
Pages29-52
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerasia Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0044-7471 • E-ISSN: 2642-0228
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17953/amer.36.3.g64015j8x06r8j53
OpenAlexW2337514374
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited4

Inside a San Francisco Bay area four pan-Asian teens head spin and body pop to modern Taiwanese and American hip hop beats. In these hallways of what western observers have termed the Asian mall, these youth have found a place to express the complex cultural milieu that they inhabit as both Asians and Americans. As they contest and simultaneously redefine the cultural norms of this space, they work to build a hybrid culture from the materials they encounter as diasporic youth. This paper explores this struggle among transnational Taiwanese youth who spend their lives straddling cultural and national borders, as part of what Shenglin Chang has termed transpacific commuter families

Aesthetics · Art · Asian americans · CONTEST · Ethnic group · Globalization · Glocalization · Identity (music · Political science · Sociology · Youth culture · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Music History and Culture

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