What is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't there? This lively overview, first published in 2006, reveals the fascinating relationship between language and ethnic identity, exploring the crucial role it plays in both revealing a speaker's ethnicity and helping to construct it.
Each entry, or chapter, focuses on one work in contemporary literature. The following elements are contained in each entry: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical and Cultural Context, Critical Overview, Sources, For Further Study, Criticism, Media Adaptations, Compare and Contrast Box, What Do I Read Next?, and Study Questions. Each volume is indexed by author, title, nationality/ethnicity, and includes a glossary of literary terms.
Race and Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon Literature - Culture, Identity and Representation
What makes English literature English? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Harris examines possible configurations of communities, illustrating dominant literary metaphors of race from Old English to its nineteenth-century critical reception.
Racial and ethnic issues stand at the core of social, political, and economic concerns in an increasingly diverse America. Accordingly, how individuals from the various ethnic groups regard themselves—and others—is a salient focus of research studies across the disciplines. Measuring Race and Ethnicity gathers psychological measures of common phenomena such as racial identity, acculturation, and intra- and intergroup relations enabling researchers to compare concepts across groups and better evaluate differences and disparities.
The Expansion of England, Essays on Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History
Confronting the contemporary poststructuralist debate from the perspective of cultural historiography, The Expansion of England presents an historical study of race and ethnicity.