... by popular artists. Contemporary rappers in France have been linguistically and stylistically shifting their sounds away from trends present in the United States as they increasingly focus their attention toward the African continent as a way to celebrate the duality of their bicultural identity...

...Nadia Brown Both politicians and the mass public believe that identity influences political behavior yet, political scientists have failed to fully detail how identity is salient for all political actors not just minorities and women legislators. To what extent do racial, gendered, and race...

... a persistent element of the Cuban-American identity. The liminal, rather than being a temporal transitory stage, becomes an integral part of the group identity. This paper theorizes and recasts the Cuban-American exile experience in Miami as explicable not only as the story of successful economic and political...

...Matthew Miller In Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, the elderly, wellrespected and fastidious Franklin “Doc” Hata begins an introspective journey toward a revitalized and reimagined identity. For Lee, this journey affords the chance to address ethnicity and immigration under a unique transnational...

.... Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2009 2009 Basketball Sherman Alexie American Indian Identity Ethnicity: Analyses of Cultural Social & Political Trends Goldstein-Sacred Hoop Dreams Sacred Hoop D reams : Basketball in the Wo rk of She rman Alexie David S...

... for Ethnic Studies, 2008 2008 Ethnicity Identity Arab American Literature Bedouin Ethnicity: Questions Trends and Interpretations Memories of Home: Reading the Bedouin in Arab American Literature Anissa J. Wardi Chatham College Katherine Wardi-Zonna Gannon University In an urban neighborhood...

...Rosanne Kanhai The evolution of identity is on-going, yet to articulate identity is the self analysis of a people's understanding of who they are at a particular time. Perhaps in more stable societies, identity has not been a preoccupation, not the “stuff” of literature and other types of art...

...Heather D. Clark For individuals who are both African American and Deaf finding a place to belong is a process of navigating their many cultural identities. In this paper I explore the following questions: where do individuals who are African American and Deaf find and make community? To which...

...José Medina In this paper I will use the Bakhtinian notion of polyphony, 1 of a choral dialogue of multiple and heterogeneous voices, to elaborate a pluralistic account of cultural identity in general and of Hispanic identity in particular. I will complicate and further pluralize the Bakhtinian...

... device in order to achieve upward mobility among all Haitians, despite an overall lack of comprehension in French by the vast majority of the population (Dejean, 1978, 1990). The principal goal of the present paper is to gain an understanding of how identity and an immigrant culture is forged, expressed...

...'Lai Olurode This particularistic and exclusionary form of identity politics has intensified in recent years within and among nations…. It is responsible for some of the most egregious violations of international humanitarian law and, in several instances, of elementary standards of humanity...

... patchwork of identity classifications. Those cracks, however, tell us a great deal about the ambivalence of the American polity toward ethnicity. Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2003 2003 Race Ethnicity Racial Definitions Law Public Policy Ethnic Pluralism Identity...

... implications for a coalition of American ethnic studies and other identity-related work in the academy. Mumbo Jumbo Ethnicity Identity Chronology Literature: A Special Issue Nimura-Time is Not a River 'TIME IS NOT A RIVER' THE IMPLICATIONS OF MUMBO JUMBO 'S PENDULUM CHRONOLOGY FOR COALITION POLITICS...

... only be described as primordial. The attachment … is not just a function of interaction.” Subsequently Geertz developed the notion of ethnic “attachment” as an affect and identity, or better yet, an affect-centered identity. The intention, often quite explicit, of these thinkers and the many who...