Identity and Culture

Identity and Culture - Issues in Cultural and Media Studies

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Publisher's Synopsis

  • Where does our sense of identity and belonging come from?
  • How does culture produce and challenge identities?
Identity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic, 'postcolonial' societies.

  • Uses examples from history, politics, fiction and the visual to examine the social power relations that create subject positions and forms of identity
  • Analyses how cultural texts and practices offer new forms of identity and agency that subvert dominant ideologies
This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism. It a key text for students in cultural studies, sociology of culture, literary studies, history, race and ethnicity studies, media and film studies, and gender studies.

Book information

ISBN: 9780335200863
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Imprint: Open University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.8
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 177
Weight: 312g
Height: 224mm
Width: 170mm
Spine width: 12mm