Questions of Identity: Personhood and collectivity in transnational migration to the United States
Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: Over the last 15 years, the discourse of 'identity' has spread rapidly within the US academy.Indeed, by uniting discussions of many different kinds of inequality, especially those organized along lines of nationality, ethnicity, race, sexuality and gender, and by offering powerful tools for linking the processes through which people are made collective to the ways in which they develop as distinctive individuals, it has become the primary medium for understanding and engaging the relationship between the political and the cultural, the subjective and the social.Many scholars have made identity their principal object of study and many more have come to use the term quite casually in the process of analysis.At the same time, faculty and students alike have taken up the discourse to articulate a forceful sense of self and vital visions of political practice.' 1
Source: Critique of Anthropology
Author: Roger Rouse
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2064625139