Charmaine Wijeyesinghe (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479801404
- eISBN:
- 9781479801435
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479801404.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. ...
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This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. Drawing from research, narratives, theory, institutional and governmental policies, and media stories, authors illustrate how centuries of racism and white privilege fuel the dynamics of racial inequality today, and created contemporary norms influencing narratives of identity, belonging, racism, and racial justice in rapidly changing contexts. Topics explored include the nature of racial choice, transracial adoption, the connections between the deaths of Black people from police violence and the deaths of economically disadvantaged whites due to despair, the conflation of race and nationality in census policies, white perceptions of wokeness and racial justice, and resistance to applying intersectionality to race and racism. The volume also examines Islamic ideologies in Black oral traditions and Hip Hop, and African cultural change and belonging through Black histories of racial mixture with Native Americans. Intersectionality receives significant attention in chapters centering the lives of GLBTQ People of Color and People of Color who belong to communities of faith marginalized in the United States. Throughout the volume, analyses are grounded in theoretical, historical, and where appropriate legal sources; however, these areas provide the context for the central focus on how race informs contemporary and emerging issues. In addition, authors use multiple specific examples and accessible language to illustrate how the experiences of people marginalized by race can inform new theories, policies, and practices related to identity, community, and social justice.Less
This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. Drawing from research, narratives, theory, institutional and governmental policies, and media stories, authors illustrate how centuries of racism and white privilege fuel the dynamics of racial inequality today, and created contemporary norms influencing narratives of identity, belonging, racism, and racial justice in rapidly changing contexts. Topics explored include the nature of racial choice, transracial adoption, the connections between the deaths of Black people from police violence and the deaths of economically disadvantaged whites due to despair, the conflation of race and nationality in census policies, white perceptions of wokeness and racial justice, and resistance to applying intersectionality to race and racism. The volume also examines Islamic ideologies in Black oral traditions and Hip Hop, and African cultural change and belonging through Black histories of racial mixture with Native Americans. Intersectionality receives significant attention in chapters centering the lives of GLBTQ People of Color and People of Color who belong to communities of faith marginalized in the United States. Throughout the volume, analyses are grounded in theoretical, historical, and where appropriate legal sources; however, these areas provide the context for the central focus on how race informs contemporary and emerging issues. In addition, authors use multiple specific examples and accessible language to illustrate how the experiences of people marginalized by race can inform new theories, policies, and practices related to identity, community, and social justice.
John Percival
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447301226
- eISBN:
- 9781447311010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301226.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter investigates perspectives on belonging and attachment to native place. Biographical interviews were carried out in the UK and Australia, in 2010, with older people who emigrated to ...
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This chapter investigates perspectives on belonging and attachment to native place. Biographical interviews were carried out in the UK and Australia, in 2010, with older people who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Interviews reveal that strong feelings often come to the fore as ageing immigrants grapple with their motivations to return to their homeland. The ‘magnet’ of country of origin as home exerts a powerful, sometimes overwhelming, and often innately resonating force. As such, homeland represents a place ageing immigrants truly belong to and, indeed, must return to while there is time. However, return migration decision-making is a complex process, and can involve weighing in the balance: personal aspirations and family obligations; ambiguous national identity and cultural affiliation; life course transitions and ancestral identity; nostalgia and birthright.Less
This chapter investigates perspectives on belonging and attachment to native place. Biographical interviews were carried out in the UK and Australia, in 2010, with older people who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Interviews reveal that strong feelings often come to the fore as ageing immigrants grapple with their motivations to return to their homeland. The ‘magnet’ of country of origin as home exerts a powerful, sometimes overwhelming, and often innately resonating force. As such, homeland represents a place ageing immigrants truly belong to and, indeed, must return to while there is time. However, return migration decision-making is a complex process, and can involve weighing in the balance: personal aspirations and family obligations; ambiguous national identity and cultural affiliation; life course transitions and ancestral identity; nostalgia and birthright.
Elliott Visconsi
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190456368
- eISBN:
- 9780190456399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456368.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This article locates Nadeem Aslam’s 2004 novel Maps for Lost Lovers within a European politico-legal argument about religious free expression under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human ...
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This article locates Nadeem Aslam’s 2004 novel Maps for Lost Lovers within a European politico-legal argument about religious free expression under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, demonstrating the novel’s engagement with the norms and lived experience of democratic pluralism under pressure. Maps for Lost Lovers is an intervention into the public argument about pluralism and assimilation in the United Kingdom, a narrative that illuminates the prescriptive regimes and structuring epiphenomena of law in post-9/11 Britain. Maps is an agenda-setting narrativization of a legal regime, and specifically a richly textured and individuated account the failures of democratic pluralism and social relations within an incompletely secularized polity. Like Aslam’s other fiction, Maps for Lost Lovers seeks to cultivate those habits of thought that can lead to collective engagement and political change.Less
This article locates Nadeem Aslam’s 2004 novel Maps for Lost Lovers within a European politico-legal argument about religious free expression under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, demonstrating the novel’s engagement with the norms and lived experience of democratic pluralism under pressure. Maps for Lost Lovers is an intervention into the public argument about pluralism and assimilation in the United Kingdom, a narrative that illuminates the prescriptive regimes and structuring epiphenomena of law in post-9/11 Britain. Maps is an agenda-setting narrativization of a legal regime, and specifically a richly textured and individuated account the failures of democratic pluralism and social relations within an incompletely secularized polity. Like Aslam’s other fiction, Maps for Lost Lovers seeks to cultivate those habits of thought that can lead to collective engagement and political change.
