Edgewalkers by Nina Krebs
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This research reviews the book Edgewalkers by Nina Boyd Krebs. Edgewalkers is Krebs's response to what she perceives as a profound cultural crisis in the United States. She refers to the "morass" of an American experience in which the dominant, or mainstream culture, seems capable of literally swallowing up the myriad individual cultures that contribute to it; the melting pot theory is one aspect of this (15f). But she takes the view that acknowledgment and even nurturing of the individual cultures of discrete contribution to the "pot" is a meaningful possibility, not least because the image of the pot has the effect of limiting outlook and perspective of the realities of lived culture. In order to establish a context for such acknowledgment and nurture, Krebs pursued the personal narratives of a number of people whom she describes as edgewalkers--those individuals who function and even thrive on the boundary between mainstream culture and another culture-group to which they were born as a matter of ethnicity,(e.g. Tiger Woods) and in which their heartfelt personal experience may be grounded, whatever the structure of their mainstream experience (xii-xiii). This also works the other way, to the degree members of the mainstream may function in the boundaries of alternative social, spiritual, or ethnic groups.To the degree Krebs looks at a variety of individual experience coming from many social and ethnic cultures, it can be characterized as cross-cultural. But she is not j
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Approximate Word count = 956
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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