Understanding Identity Construction, Hegemony, and Resistance

1. Why is it important to learn about race and racial relations in this country? It is crucial to learn about race and racial relations in the United States because our country is home to many immigrants and there has been many issues regarding race in this country. For example, African Americans struggled to be accepted and treated as an equal—dealing with racism. Diversity is a huge factor in this country since it is increasing every moment. In order to survive, immigrants must assimilate to American

complex identities” (Shohat, 2). As an American, Jew, and Arab, she speaks of the disparities amidst a war involving all three cultural topographies. Albeit she speaks from a subjective standpoint, she does not mention the issue of racial hygiene, class, geographic divisions, and gender. Passages from Guenter Lewy, Melissa Wright, and Philippe Bourgois will be used to discuss the way in which different positionalities might affect the analysis of “Dislocated Identities.” In “Dislocated Identities,” Dr

reinforce the concept of difference in a social movement Baum suggests that what makes an effective social theory, including feminist theory is it understands the social and political arrangements of the people situated in the argument. So that understanding then helps shape the processes the theory must then go through (Baum 1087), because feminism is fighting for something so big, gender equality, it affects at least half of the population, and not one person 's situation will be completely the same

TGT2eC23 19/03/2003 10:40 AM Page 269 23 Globalization and Cultural Identity John Tomlinson It is fair to say that the impact of globalization in the cultural sphere has, most generally, been viewed in a pessimistic light. Typically, it has been associated with the destruction of cultural identities, victims of the accelerating encroachment of a homogenized, westernized, consumer culture. This view, the constituency for which extends from (some) academics to anti-globalization activists

Inequalities in LGBT-Social Work Education: A Systemic Oppression Introduction Expressions such as efforts to “cure” Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals were heard from social workers in the Canadian context several years ago (Carniol, 2010), today this expression has changed slightly because heterosexism, oppression, and discrimination remain in social work education (Dentano, et al., 2016). Canada is a country that has protected sexual minorities rights and has a well-known recognition

(PSYC2020 Lecture Notes, 2014). Generally, we create males as the dominant gender and females or subordinate masculinities as the inferior gender. Due to both genders having ‘psychological investments’ we are able to justify our actions through resistance and defence to social action (PSYC2020 Lecture Notes, 2014). Therefore it is evident that the Psycho-discursive approach relates to the concept of hegemonic

To understand the postcolonial readings of Amitav Ghosh’s novels let us begin by understanding what postcolonial literature is. In this chapter, I will try to understand what the postcolonial literature does by theorizing the entire process of imperialization or colonization. In the following chapters I will try to understand the postcolonial perspective in Amitav Ghosh’s fictional works. As Peter Barry observes in his Beginning Theory, postcolonial criticism emerged as a distinct category only in

modern feminism aimed to eradicate the hegemonic theory of inferiority by women to the male gender. Postmodern feminism aspires to eliminate categories of gender altogether, for the social construct of gender is considered to disregard the individual identity of the authentic self. If gender is considered a biologically performative expression, then to categorize individuals by gender would elicit ignorance in genuine conceptions of self and others. In this paper I will illustrate the postmodern feminist

workings are strictly personal, being instrumental in the eternal quest towards self-realization. Under this point of view, the reinterpretation of the Chinese folktales signifies to Kingston the construction not only of her own speech but also of the structure for understanding her Chinese American identity; in Kingston’s words: “myth have to change, be useful or forgotten. Like people who carry them across oceans, myths become American…. I take the power I need from whatever myth” (quoted in Grice

Journalism http://jou.sagepub.com/ Hegemony and discourse : Negotiating cultural relationships through media production Michael Robert Evans Journalism 2002 3: 309 DOI: 10.1177/146488490200300302 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jou.sagepub.com/content/3/3/309 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Journalism can be found at: Email Alerts: http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://jou.sagepub.com/subscriptions