Identity and Culture

by Chris Weedon

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  • 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.
  • ISBN13 9780335200870
  • Publish Date 16 July 2004
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 May 2012
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Open University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English