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Author Cheng, Vincent John, 1951-

Title Inauthentic : the anxiety over culture and identity / Vincent J. Cheng
Published Piscataway, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, 2004

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Description 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction : the anxiety of identity -- 2. Who can speak as other? : authenticity, postcoloniality, and the academy -- 3. Inventing Irishness : authenticity and identity -- 4. International adoption and identity : the anxiety over authentic cultural heritage -- 5. The inauthentic Jew : Jewishness and its discontents -- 6. Asian American identity : the good, the bad, the ugly - and the future -- 7. Coda : living cultures
Summary Who is "authentic" and who is "other" in a given culture? Who can speak for the "other?" What do we mean by authenticity? These are critical questions that today's world--brought closer together and yet pulled farther apart by globalism and neocolonialism--has been unable to answer. Inauthentic probes these issues through case studies on the pursuit of authenticity and identity. [from publisher's advertisement]
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnicity -- United States.
Group identity -- United States.
Authenticity (Philosophy)
Minorities -- United States -- Psychology.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Psychology.
Biculturalism -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
LC no. 2003018874
ISBN 0813534003 cased
0813534011 paperback
Other Titles Anxiety over culture and identity