A summary of the lecture
Yon, Daniel A. (2000). Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times, Chapters 4, 5, & 6, pp. 73-136.URL
The study explores culture and identity as it happens among urban high school learners in Ontario, Toronto of Canada. The text draws its objectives from the personal conversations and observations from the students and teachers with drama, experimental work, student’s writings, and videos. Based on this, Yon Daniel identifies how racial differences and cultural identities are formulated among the diverse higher institution leaners to represent their broad range of cultural background, ethnic, racial, and linguistic backgrounds.
Elusive culture defines the ethnographic aspect of engaging passionate youths in their quest for national identity in the world. Yon is exploring the concept of elusive culture and how it is provocatively brushing against the ideologies of most of the discussed ethnographic texts as they refute the ethnographic content of these youths in their learning institutions. The students’ diverse cultural aspect is refusing to work out through a rigid binary gesturing and positions other than the use of the evocative intersection of subjectivity, rootedness, ambivalence, and spatial practices. The students have a different perception of how they could approach their incentives concerning their elusive cultures.
Employing and adhering to the concept of diaspora, globalization, identity, and differences while attempting to understand the construction level of subjectivity from the content of concrete social activities and the real life situation is what this text highlights. Yon draws significant attention to the specific content of racism and the personal cases of racists that struggle to elude ethnography’s critical values. Based on this text, the writer describes elusive culture as a significant contribution to the literature that critically highlights the contents of ethnography among the students at higher instruction in urban centers.
Forum Questions on Elusive Culture
- How does elusive culture impact the students’ ethnographic aspect in urban schools in the contemporary world?
- Does racial prejudice and racism matter to the higher institution leaners even though they are pursuing the same goal?
Work Cited
Yon, Daniel A. (2000). Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times, Chapters 4, 5, & 6, pp. 73-136.URL