RE-Situating Identities

The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

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Edited by Vered Amit-Talai and Caroline Knowles

Broadview Press

Due/Published October 1995, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 1551110717

Re-Situating Identities signals a crucial move away from the extremes of statistical reductionism and textual preoccupation which have marked race and ethnic studies. Instead, inspired by an insistence on concrete social and political change these essays seek to re-energize the field by systematic and empirically grounded investigation of the production of identities in power relationships. Working with ethnographic data, life histories and historical documents, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural theorists from Britain, Canada and the United States present a diverse array of scenarios from courtrooms and classrooms to diasporas, communities, state memorials and media representations