"It's Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black": Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community. Issue 1 (18th February 2013)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "It's Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black": Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community. Issue 1 (18th February 2013)
- Main Title:
- "It's Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black": Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community
- Authors:
- Howarth, Caroline
Wagner, Wolfgang
Magnusson, Nicola
Sammut, Gordon - Abstract:
- <abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This article explores identity work and acculturation work in the lives of British mixed‐heritage children and adults. Children, teenagers, and parents with mixed heritage participated in a community arts project that invited them to deliberate, construct, and reconstruct their cultural identities and cultural relations. We found that acculturation, cultural and raced identities, are constructed through a series of oppositional themes: cultural maintenance versus cultural contact; identity as inclusion versus identity as exclusion; institutionalized ideologies versus agency. The findings point towards an understanding of acculturation as a dynamic, situated, and multifaceted process: <italic>acculturation in movement</italic>. To investigate this, we argue that acculturation research needs to develop a more dynamic and situated approach to the study of identity, representation, and culture. The article concludes with a discussion on the need for political psychologists to develop methods attuned to the tensions and politics of acculturation that are capable of highlighting the possibilities for resistance and social change.</p> </abstract>
- Is Part Of:
- Political psychology. Volume 35:Issue 1(2014:Feb.)
- Journal:
- Political psychology
- Issue:
- Volume 35:Issue 1(2014:Feb.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 35, Issue 1 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0035-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 81
- Page End:
- 95
- Publication Date:
- 2013-02-18
- Subjects:
- Political psychology -- Periodicals
Political sociology -- Periodicals
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/pops.12020 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0162-895X
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