The Position of English for a New Sector of ‘Japanese’ Youths: Mixed-Ethnic Girls’ Constructions of Linguistic and Ethnic Identities

2011 ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Laurel Kamada
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identities

Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Transnational Politics ◽  
Contextual Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Spaghetti Westerns ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
National Local

This comprehensive study brings together leading international scholars in a variety of disciplines to both revisit the Spaghetti Western genre's cultural significance and consider its ongoing influence on international film industries. The book provides a range of innovative perspectives on this discrete and perennially popular topic. The book consists of four sections: Trans-Genre Roots; Ethnic Identities, Transnational Politics; Asian Crossovers; and Routes of Relocation, Transition, and Appropriation. Its rigorous historical, cultural, and political enquiry engages with current scholarly trends and balances specialized contextual knowledge with recognition of the instability of national/local identities. The book provides fresh interrogations of the myriad ways in which the Spaghetti Western has influenced contemporary filmmaking practice across national industries.

In Need

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordanna Bailkin
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter asks how refugee camps transformed people as well as spaces, altering the identities of the individuals and communities who lived in and near them. It considers how camps forged and fractured economic, religious, and ethnic identities, constructing different kinds of unity and disunity. Camps had unpredictable effects on how refugees and Britons thought of themselves, and how they saw their relationship to upward and downward mobility. As the impoverished Briton emerged more clearly in the imagination of the welfare state, the refugee was his constant companion and critic. The state struggled to determine whether refugees required the same care as the poor, or if they warranted their own structures of aid.

Persistence and Change in Asian Identity among Children of Intermarried Couples

1995 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogelio Saenz ◽  
Sean-Shong Hwang ◽  
Benigno E. Aguirre ◽  
Robert N. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
Asian Ethnicity ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Asian Identity ◽  
Multiracial Children

In recent years, a significant amount of attention has been devoted to the survival of ethnicity among multiracial people in the United States. This concern is especially evident in the case of the offspring of Asian-Anglo couples. While scholars have speculated on the extent to which Asian ethnicity will continue to persist among multiracial children, little empirical work has addressed this concern. In this analysis, we use a multilevel model to examine the ethnic identification (as reported by parents) of children of Asian-Anglo couples. Data from the 1980 Public-Use Microdata Sample for California are used in the analysis. The results indicate that the majority of the children had Anglo ethnic identities. The multivariate findings also identify several variables that are related to children's ethnic identification.

Recollections of emerging hybrid ethnic identities in Soviet Central Asia: the case of Uzbekistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1026-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Dadabaev
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
Ethnic Policy ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

This paper is a contribution to the debate about how people in Central Asia recall Soviet ethnic policies and their vision of how these policies have shaped the identities of their peers and contemporaries. In order to do so, this paper utilizes the outcomes of in-depth interviews about everyday Soviet life in Uzbekistan conducted with 75 senior citizens between 2006 and 2009. These narratives demonstrate that people do not explain Soviet ethnic policies simply through the “modernization” or “victimization” dichotomy but place their experiences in between these discourses. Their recollections also highlight the pragmatic flexibility of the public's adaptive strategies to Soviet ethnic policies. This paper also argues that Soviet ethnic policy produced complicated hybrid units of identities and multiple social strata. Among those who succeeded in adapting to the Soviet realities, a new group emerged, known asRussi assimilados(Russian-speaking Sovietophiles). However, in everyday life, relations between theassimiladosand their “indigenous” or “nativist” countrymen are reported to have been complicated, with clear divisions between these two groups and separate social spaces of their own for each of these strata.

Cult, Countenance, and Community: Donor Portraits from the Colonial Andes

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Colonial Peru ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Similarity And Difference

AbstractThe article outlines the nature of the donor portrait, including its origins in Europe and its manifestations in Spanish colonial Peru. Then it considers three paintings featuring donor portraits and the miraculous statue known as Christ of the Earthquakes (El Señor de los Temblores). An introduction to the original statue, housed in the Cathedral of Cusco, and its cult is provided. Then the portraits are analyzed for the ways in which they express both similarity and difference. On one hand, the works served to unite the donors as pious Christians within the wider devotional community of Cusco; on the other hand, the works’ details served to distinguish and differentiate the donors based on their particular social and ethnic identities.

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