摘要
以雷洁琼1931年的硕士论文为原始资料,分析了20世纪30年代华裔青年的自我认同,论述了芝加哥学派对早期华人华裔研究的影响,华裔青年群体的成长过程、种族压力下的华人家庭生活、华裔学生在美国公立学校的经历、在就业上所受到的歧视以及渴望返回中国的心理状态。提炼出一个观点:在美国族裔关系中,只要整个华人族群的地位低下,华裔青年的自我认同就无法摆脱"外国人"的阴影;华裔青少年在语言、思维、生活方式及社会举止上的美国化仅仅是一种单方面的改变,并不能使他们成为一个美国社会认可的美国人;在一个种族意识强烈的社会里,文化上的美国人不等于是种族上的美国人。
Through a careful analysis of Lei Jie-qiong＇s Master thesis written in 1931, this article examines the self-identity of American-born Chinese youth in the 1930s. A number of issues are discussed, such as how the early academic research on ethnic Chinese was influenced by the Chicago School, the growth of American-born Chinese youth as a social group, ethnic Chinese family life under the ethnic pressure, Chinese students at American public schools, discrimination against American-born Chinese in employment, students and why they wanted to go back to China. The author argues that as long as the social status of Chinese American community as a whole remained low, the self-identity of Chinese youth could never get rid of the lingering shadow of ＂being foreigners＂. Acquiring and replicating White Americans＇ language, mindset, social manners and behaviour was merely a superficial change, which could not make them accepted by American society. In a racially stratified society, being culturally American is different from being racially American.
出处
《华侨华人历史研究》
CSSCI
2009年第1期11-26,共16页
Journal of Overseas Chinese History Studies
关键词
美国华裔
华裔青年
自我认同
种族关系
种族意识
种族歧视
雷洁琼
American-born Chinese
Chinese American youth
identity
race relations
ethnic consciousness
racial discrimination
Lei Jie-qiong
