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My name is : is your name a gift or a burden? / Javeria K. Shah ; edited by Nila Ginger Hofman and Janise Hurtig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shah, Javeria K., author.
- Series:
- Cultural Anthropology (Lived Places Publishing)
- Cultural Anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology.
- Emigration & Immigration.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Is your name a gift or a burden?
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Lived Places Publishing, 2024.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Names and how we feel about them are linked to our sense of self-identity. For people with non-Western names in Western English-speaking contexts, this relationship can be complicated. My Name Is explores verbatim narratives from research participants who have non-Western names, examining how individuals view their relationships with their names, how names impact self-identity, and how names can correlate to the pressure to conform with westernized English norms. An extension of the My Name Is® research project and award-winning documentary, this book shares valuable lived experience as well as looking at the importance of getting names right.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Understanding name identity using Whiteness ecology theory
- Chapter 2 My name is Javeria
- Chapter 3 My name is Dheeraj
- Chapter 4 My name is Pereko
- Chapter 5 My name is Sahil
- Chapter 6 My name is Armen
- Chapter 7 My name is Syra
- Chapter 8 My name is Phoenix
- Chapter 9 My name is Teeroumanee
- Chapter 10 My name is Georgina
- Chapter 11 My name is Musarrat
- Chapter 12 My name is Suryani
- Chapter 13 The themes
- Notes
- Recommended discussion topics
- References
- Recommended further reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on Publisher's website, viewed January 10, 2025.
- Other Format:
- Print version: My name is : is your name a gift or a burden?.
- ISBN:
- 9781915734259
- 9781915734242
- OCLC:
- 1479401422
- Publisher Number:
- 10.62859/9781915734259 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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