Navigating multiple identities : race, gender, culture, nationality, and roles / edited by Ruthellen Josselson and Michele Harway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Josselson, Ruthellen.

Harway, Michele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology).

Ethnicity.

Gender identity.

Nationalism.

Social role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although questionnaires routinely ask people to check boxes indicating if they are, for example, male or female, black or white, Hispanic or American, many people do not fit neatly into one category or another. Identity is increasingly organized multiply and may encompass additional categories beyond those that appear on demographic questionnaires. In addition, identities are often fluid and context-dependent, depending on the external social factors that invite their emergence. Identity is constantly evolving in light of changing environments, but people are often uncomfortably fixed with soc

Contents:

Cover; Contents; 1. The Challenges of Multiple Identity; 2. Multiple Identities and Their Organization; 3. The "We of Me": Barack Obama's Search for Identity; 4. The Varieties of the Masculine Experience; 5. Growing Up Bicultural in the United States: The Case of Japanese-Americans; 6. The Multiple Identities of Feminist Women of Color: Creating a New Feminism?; 7. The Multiple Identities of Transgender Individuals: Incorporating a Framework of Intersectionality to Gender Crossing; 8. A Garden for Many Identities

9. "I Am More (Than Just) Black": Contesting Multiplicity Through Conferring and Asserting Singularity in Narratives of Blackness10. Identities in the First Person Plural: Muslim-Jewish Couples in France; 11. Identity Wounds: Multiple Identities and Intersectional Theory in the Context of Multiculturalism; 12. Evaluation of Cultural and Linguistic Practices: Constructing Finnish-German Identities in Narrative Research Interviews; 13. "Because I'm Neither Gringa nor Latina": Conceptualizing Multiple Identities Within Transnational Social Fields; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F

GH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-59365-2

0-19-983829-1

9786613623485

OCLC:

781628750