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Identities on the Move questions the postmodernist concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of identity and difference, addressing post-positivist interpretations of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency.

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A cross-disciplinary study of the role of fashion in contemporary society, and its relationship with individual identity and the self.

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A cross-disciplinary study of the role of fashion in contemporary society, and its relationship with individual identity and the self.

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Kenneth Maurice Tyler identifies and describes the multiple identity components of young African American men using the theoretical and empirical literatures from education and the social science disciplines. This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of the ideologies and mindsets of many young African American men.

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Kenneth Maurice Tyler identifies and describes the multiple identity components of young African American men using the theoretical and empirical literatures from education and the social science disciplines. This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of the ideologies and mindsets of many young African American men.

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Cynthia Baiqing Zhang examines the interaction between identity and the social network of relations through interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China. She argues the students new religious and ethnic identities and old family and partner identities shape and are shaped by their networks.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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Examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop. At a time when fear and confusion permeate their experiences, Identity, Education and Belonging is an all-important study of the lives of Muslim and Arab youth in Australia.

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Identity, Rights, and Awareness opens a much needed critical analysis of subaltern Dalit voice in India. Filling a lacuna in comparative analysis of the connections between anticaste social movement, communal identities, and marginalized voice, this book argues for the important role of narrative strategy in contending against oppressive systems.

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With ideological divisions polarizing society, this book introduces Ideologically Challenging Entertainment (ICE), which uses multiple perspectives to help audiences connect with those holding different world views. A case study of a production using the ICE model shows audiences responding with greater tolerance and acceptance of others.

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This work is both a theoretical and empirical analysis of the growing use of ideological control in business and administrative organizations. The empirical studies reported in this volume were conducted in different types of organizations and in different countries (Poland, the United States, and Sweden).

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Covering the full range of illegal immigrants from Mexican border crossers to Central American refugees, illegal Europeans, and smuggled Chinese, the book considers the kind of work the migrants do and the public response to them.

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The work aims to test a variety of theoretical ideas about the possible factors involved in social regulation of illegitimacy social hierarchy, fraternal interest groups, female power, extended family structure, affection for children, and father involvement with infants and to examine combinations of these factors for predictive power.

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This concise, up-to-date volume compiles information and materials documenting illicit drugs and their use from multiple perspectives.

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Scholars from science, art, and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.

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The 10 essays here explore the images of blacks in historical contemporary American culture. It interprets the use of black images in a variety of media, such as works of art, popular titles, and other sources, and identifies the artifacts, books, films, and other materials that have been collected privately or in libraries.

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Now they were faced with a new country and a new set of images to deal with just as Germany exerts itself more powerfully than ever on the world economic scene.

How much attention has this new Germany received in the American media, and how accurate are the new portrayals

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The first book of its kind, Images of the Disabled/Disabling Images combines an examination of the presentation of persons with disabilities in literature, film, and the media with an analysis of the ways in which these images are expressed in public policy concerning the disabled.

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This expanded collection of new and fully revised explorations of media content identifies the ways we all have been negatively stereotyped and demonstrates how careful analysis of media portrayals can create more beneficial alternatives.

Not all damaging stereotypes are obvious.