1st Edition

A Question of Identity

Edited By Anne J. Kershen Copyright 1998
319 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

319 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1998, this book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of one of the most vital issues in the contemporary world. Never was this topic more relevant than now, on the threshold of the twenty-first century. At a time when the global economy, European citizenship and worldwide religion are the order of the day, nationalism - as in eastern Europe and the Balkans - and regionalism -... Read more

1. Being Born Lost? The Cultural and Institutional Dimensions of Welsh Identity, Wayne Parsons.  2. The Northern Irish Identity, Karen Trew.  3. ‘A Good Jew or a Good Englishman?’ : The Jewish Lads’ Brigade and Anglo-Jewish Identity, Sharman Kadish.  4. Issues of Identity Through the Synagogue: British Jewish Woman in the late Twentieth Century, Marlena Schmool.  5. Paths and Pitfalls in the Exploration of British Bangladeshi Identity, Rod Chalmers.  6. The Search for Wholeness: The Construction of National and Islamic Identities among British Bangladeshis, John Eade.  7. Identity, Age and Masculinity amongst Bengali Elders in East London, Katy Gardner.  8. Caribbean Identities and the British Context: Creolisation as a Common Framework.  9. German Identity After Reunification, Eberhard Bort.  10. Immigration, European Integration and the Representation of Migrant Interests, Andrew Geddes.  11. A Concept of European Union Citizenship: Problems and Possibilities, Jo Shaw.  12. Political Identities and Social Struggle in Africa, Graham Harrison.   13. Bilingualism and the Construction of a New ‘American’ Identity, Chris Julios.

Biography

Anne J. Kershen

’...provides interesting material for those studying first and second generation migration issues.’ Ethnic Conflict ’...informative and offers new and interesting material to debates on identity.’ Ethnic and Racial Studies