Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience

by Lee D. Baker

Life in Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today. Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means to be American. Explores the tension between identity and identification to help readers begin to understand how people creatively confront the perks and perils of identity in the United States. Offers a look at a wide range of subjects violence and video games, queer pilgrimages to San Francisco, Filipina critiques of sleeping around, and the significance of lowriders in Hispano/Chicano culture.

464 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2003

About the author

Lee D. Baker is an American cultural anthropologist, author, and Duke University faculty member. He is the Mrs. A. Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology, African & African-American Studies, and Sociology. He served as Duke's Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Vice Provost from 2008 to 2016.