Redefining Cultural Identities
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Page : 219 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2001
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Page : 219 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
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Author : Nada Svob-Dokit
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Europe, Southern
ISBN : 9789536096220
Author : James Charles Cobb
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820321394
Cobb, "surveys the remarkable story of southern identity and its persistence in the face of sweeping changes in the South's economy, society and political structure."--dust jacket.
Author : François Jullien
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509547037
As people throughout the world react to globalization and revert to nationalism, they are proclaiming distinct cultural identities for themselves. Cultural identity seems to offer a defensive wall against the homogenizing effects of globalization and a framework for nurturing and protecting cultural differences. In this short and provocative book, François Jullien argues that this emphasis on cultural identity is a mistake. Cultures exist in relation to one another and they are constantly mutating and transforming themselves. There is no cultural identity, there are only what Jullien calls ‘resources’. Resources are created in a certain space, they are available to all and belong to no one. They are not exclusive, like the values to which we proclaim loyalty; instead, we deploy them or not, activate them or let them fall by the wayside, and each of us as individuals is responsible for these choices. This conceptual shift requires us to redefine three key terms – the universal, the uniform and the common. Equipped with these concepts, we can rethink the dialogue between cultures in a way that avoids what Jullien sees as the false debate about identity and difference. This powerful critique of the modern shibboleth of cultural identity will appeal to anyone interested in the great social and political questions of our time.
Author : Tetyana Lysenko
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3346451445
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University, language: English, abstract: While reading about Chicano nationalist movement, I found out that this struggle of Mexican-Americans against an economic and social oppression by the dominant U.S. society, afterwards has not disappeared completely. Until today it inspires Mexican-American intellectuals, artists, cineastes and writers to continue the path of ethnic/cultural self-affirmation. Thus, I was intrigued about how Mexican-Americans would define their ethnical identity today in backdrop of the current demographic shift, which manifests itself in the transforming from Latino minority into the majority population. This phenomenon which the U.S. media called "browning" or "latinization" of America, was evoked due to the immigration boom in the 1990s and early 2000s along with higher birth rates among U.S. Latino minorities. In the face of this fact, the state and its institutions became more aware of its multicultural and multiracial future, and that pushed them to redefine, reaffirm or, applying terminology of Anderson, to re-imagine itself once again as a nation. Yet it is still unclear what would it mean for future majority population. According to Stephen Bochner "the cultural identity of a society is defined by its majority group, and this group is usually quite distinguishable from the minority sub-groups with whom they share the physical environment and the territory that they inhabit". Well, would this claim also be legitimate in case of the U.S. demographic shift? How are Mexican-Americans perceiving this change? Whether there are changes in their mindsets and ways they represent themselves on social and cultural levels too? It should not be forgotten that Mexican-American community lived over the history under the labels of sub-group, temporal nation builders or just minority which in subtext implies less important.
Author : Gerd Baumann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135961891
Multicultural Riddle is a comprehensive exploration of all the issues that shape our search for a multicultural society. The book examines how we can establish a state of justice and equality between and among three groups: those who believe in a unified national culture, those who trace their culture to their ethnic identity, and those who view their religion as their culture. To solve the multicultural riddle, one must rethink national identity, ethnicity and the role of religion in the modern world.
Author : Nada Švob-Dokić
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Communication and culture
ISBN : 9789536096213
Author : John R. Baldwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135634297
Argues that culture is perhaps the most important thing to know about people if one wants to make predictions about their behavior. The goal of this volume is to present a theoretically exhaustive integration of multidisciplinary approaches.
Author : B. Railton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0230118666
Using five personal narratives and in contrast to both the traditional and multicultural narratives, this book suggest cross-cultural transformation has been at the core of America since the first moments of contact.
Author : Culturelink
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 9789536096213