Chapter 1
Metroethnicity and cool
A theory of lifestyle identities
Article outline
- The lightness of being ethnic: The creative ‘acquirement’ of multiple meanings
- Cool: A swerving trajectory
- Post-ethnic languages
- The texture of language: Slang du jour
- Empires of cool: Bilingualism and language learning
- Ethnic reconstruction: Hybridities
- Italian Ainu
- The problems of ethnic romance
- Metroethnicity: Decentering ethnicity
- The principle of Cool