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A Question of Class: The Redneck Stereotype in Southern Fiction

An online book by Duane Carr, Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 1996.

 

Alien Abductions and the End of White People

Annalee Newitz, Bad Subjects, Issue #5, May, 1993 - "I think the alien abduction narrative, whatever its 'real' origin, can be understood as a cautionary racial fable for our multicultural times. The moral of this fable is the same one we supposedly already learned from the imperialist fable: when two very different groups experience 'first contact', one group will usually try to dominate the other."

American Jewish Press Association

Includes descriptions of all member papers and links to all member papers with an online version.

Arab Culture and Identity

A Web site by Aida Hasan. "This site contains articles and links relating to Arab culture and the Arab people -- covering history, language, art, music and literature"

Center for the Study of White American Culture

"Not an organization for white supremacists, as some people might infer, we are instead a multiracial organization that looks at whiteness and white American culture."

Cultural identity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, identity politics.…"

Essays and Articles Relevant to the Great Italy-the-USA-immigration: L'Avventura

"The links on this page take the reader to separate pages which contain information of interest to Italian-Americans and others who seek to extend their knowledge of the great Italy-to-the-United-States-of-America avventura."

Global Media Journal

"Global Media Journal publishes works that assess existing media structures and practices, such as global media concentration, globalization of TV genres, global media and consumer culture, the role of media in democratic governance and global justice, propaganda, media reception and cultural practice, commercialization of news, new media technologies, media regulations, regional media, alternative media, and other timely issues."

Jewish Community Online and Maven

Two portals and search engines to many, if not all, things Jewish on the Web.

Jurassic Park, or, Sympathy for the Dinosaur

Joe Sartelle, writes in Bad Subjects, Issue #5. May 1993, "dinosaurs are allegories not only of racial differentiation but of class identity. … In other words, Jurassic Park can be read as, among other things, a critique of identity politics…."

Identities in Transition: Eastern Europe and Russia After the Collapse of Communism

"The collapse of communism has had profound repercussions for the identities of people in Eastern Europe and tthe former Soviet Union." University of California Press/University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, Edited Volume #93, pp. i-ix, 1996. Edited by Victoria E. Bonnell

Identity Politics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

"The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around ideology or party affiliation, identity politics typically concerns the liberation of a specific constituency marginalized within its larger context. Members of that constituency assert or reclaim ways of understanding their distinctiveness that challenge dominant oppressive characterizations, with the goal of greater self-determination." --Cressida Heyes

Identities and Social Action

"An ESRC Research Programme at the Open University investigating emerging identity trends. High quality research on identity and conflict, marginalised identities, political and civic involvement."

Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India

University of California Press, c1998. By Parma Roy. "The question of originality and its Other has thus been an irreducible if sometimes camouflaged component of our models of colonial and postcolonial elite identity formation as well as of nation formation; one of the aims of this book is to foreground it as such. "

Irish Eyes Online

Although this paper features sections on liesure, shoping, travel, etc. the focus of the frontpage is on the political situation in Ireland -- "The Troubles."

Irish Voice

"The voice of Irish America" - the entry page says it is "linked" with IrishAbroad.com, but in fact, all of the actual content seems to come from IrishAbroad.

Islam and the Western Media

Stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam in the media are rooted in prejudice, and ignorance, says Bassil Akel.

Islam's Women Under Western Eyes

"Women are often called upon to illustrate a preconceived cultural landscape that endorses the 'agreed paradigm of Islam in the West': distant, passive, exotic, victim, veiled, reacting to events instead of actively participating in them." Gema Martin-Muñoz writing in London-based openDemocracy

Media, Gender and Identity

Bonus discussions and interviews to complement matrial in the book of the same name by David Gauntlett. Includes: Men's Magazines in Germany, Self-Help Books and the Pursuit of a Happy Identity, The Bad Thing about Men's Magazines: Amy Jankowicz and David Gauntlett in Conversation, More about More!: The sexual language of young women's magazines... more.

The Media and its Representation of Islam and Muslim Women

An article written and researched by Sairra Patel. An edited version of this essay appeared in April 1999 in a collection of essays entitled Young Women Speak: A Message to the Media, edited by Jane Waghorn and published by the Women's Press - London.

MilitaryCity.com

The parent to the ArmyTimes, NavyTimes, AirForceTimes and MarineTimes.

Nation Planet

An article by Paul Treanor and a portal to nationalism resources "Nationalism is, paradoxically, the greatest of the transnational movements. Its ideal world order consists of: permanent states, formed by trans-generational communities, jointly holding all inhabitable territory. The exact number of states is not relevant to these characteristics. 'Nationalism' includes ethno-nationalists who want independence for 10 000 'peoples'; and globalists who believe in a single 'nation of humanity'."

National Identity and Gender Politics

Table of Contents of the Summer 2000 issue of Canadian Woman Studies. Issue can be purchased online.

The North American Street Newspaper Assn.

"Streetpapers offer dignity, opportunity, and advocacy to those who often have the very least in our society. During a time when social justice issues are too often fragmented into narrow interest groups, these papers have broad appeal based upon the ethic of self-help and caring for one another across class-boundaries."

The Portrayal Of Muslim Women In Canadian Mainstream Media

A community based analysis prepared by Gul Joya Jafri, Afghan Women's Organization, 1998. This .pdf document requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The Portrayal of Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in Televised International Athletic Events

By Don Sabo, Sue Curry Jansen, Danny Tate, Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Susan Leggett.
Edited by Edward Derse, Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.
Copyright: Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, November 1995.

Reconnecting to an Italian-American Ethnic Self

James C. Mancuso (2001) writes: "The text of this essay offers a discussion of the ways in which people develop, maintain, and, in some cases, seek to reestablish, self identities based on associations with a particular cultural group." Includes a page of links to Italian-Americana.

Savages, Swine, and Buffoons:

Hollywood's Selective Stereotypical Representations of Japanese, Germans, and Italians in Films Produced during World War II - article by Ralph Donald

Sicilian Culture: The People, The History, The Culture: The News & Views: Dances with Luigi

Excerpted from a review by Prof. Emeritus James C. Mancuso.

Sicilian Culture: The Cinema: Hollywood Portrayals, Stereotypes & TV Shows

"People have loved outlaws since the beginning. Plus, they're set up like soldiers, which is another story people love... like the regime that they have. I think it's just anyone that goes outside the law and outside of the norm --
and they do it with a little more flair" -- James Galdonfini

Tolerance.org

A Web project of the Southern Povery Law Center

White Trash: The Construction of an American Scapegoat

"This site explores the general treatment of working class whites in the media -- comics, literature, film and television; dealing in depth with the areas of religion, race relations, work and lifestyle in defining working class whites as a unique social culture." -- Angel Price, University of Virginia

Women and the Black Diaspora

Volume 23, No. 2 Winter 2004 of Canadian Woman Studies - Table of Contents online, issue can be purchased online.

 

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