Elusive Culture

<p><b>A fascinating ethnographic study of a high school in Toronto with surprising insights into how these adolescents identify themselves in terms of race gender ethnicity and sexuality.</b></p><p>At one point I thought of myself as a Black person and that limits me because as a Black person there are things that I am suppose[d] to be. So I had to shed that. I am not just Black. I am a woman and that limits me as well. [But]...if I think that I am limited then I don't dare risk anything or try to do anything. So 'bust' being Black and 'bust' being a woman.... - Margaret a student at Maple Heights</p><p>Elusive Culture is a fascinating ethnographic study of youth engaged in a passionate quest for identity in global times. It explores questions of identity and culture at a Toronto high school a space wherein teachers and students alike shift and slide in relation to the policies and practices of anti-racism multiculturalism and the competing discourses of identity. Drawing on personal observations conversations with students and teachers experimental work in drama use of video and student writings Yon develops a complex view of identity and culture one attuned to the ambivalent and contradictory processes of everyday life.</p>