Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today.

• Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means to be American.
• Explores the tension between identity and identification to help readers begin to understand how people creatively confront the perks and perils of identity in the United States.
• Offers a look at a wide range of subjects including: violence and video games, queer pilgrimages to San Francisco, Filipina critiques of "sleeping around," and the significance of "lowriders" in Hispano/Chicano culture.

Lee D. Baker is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University. He is author of From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954 (1998). He is president elect of the Society for the Anthropology of North America.