The Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Perceptions of by Ronald L. Jackson

By Ronald L. Jackson

Whiteness is frequently seemed upon and equated with being American, yet this e-book seeks to find how different American voices and studies were and are excluded from the yankee legacy. It at once addresses the idea of self and human department in a cultural weather that has traditionally fostered the marginalization of a number of racial identities. this is often an interdisciplinary paintings on figuring out and selling intercultural communique and should be of curiosity to scholars and students within the fields of conversation, multicultural reports, social psychology, and sociology.

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