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  • Where does our sense of identity and belonging come from?
  • How does culture produce and challenge identities?
Identity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic, ‘postcolonial’ societies.

  • Uses examples from history, politics, fiction and the visual to examine the social power relations that create subject positions and forms of identity
  • Analyses how cultural texts and practices offer new forms of identity and agency that subvert dominant ideologies
This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism. It a key text for students in cultural studies, sociology of culture, literary studies, history, race and ethnicity studies, media and film studies, and gender studies.

Identity and Culture: Narratives of Difference and Belonging

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    Publisher: Open University Press
    Publication Date: 16/07/2004
    ISBN13: 9780335200863, 978-0335200863
    ISBN10: 335200869

    Number of Pages: 192

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    • Where does our sense of identity and belonging come from?
    • How does culture produce and challenge identities?
    Identity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic, ‘postcolonial’ societies.

    • Uses examples from history, politics, fiction and the visual to examine the social power relations that create subject positions and forms of identity
    • Analyses how cultural texts and practices offer new forms of identity and agency that subvert dominant ideologies
    This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism. It a key text for students in cultural studies, sociology of culture, literary studies, history, race and ethnicity studies, media and film studies, and gender studies.

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