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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817670203321

Autore

Cheng Vincent John <1951->

Titolo

Inauthentic : the anxiety over culture and identity / / Vincent J. Cheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8135-5701-1

0-8135-3644-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/00973

Soggetti

Ethnicity - United States

Group identity - United States

Authenticity (Philosophy)

Minorities - United States - Psychology

Racially mixed people - United States - Psychology

Biculturalism - United States

United States Ethnic relations

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Anxiety of Identity -- Chapter 2: Who Can Speak as Other? Authenticity, Postcoloniality, and the Academy -- Chapter 3: Inventing Irishness: Authenticity and Identity -- Chapter 4: International Adoption and Identity: The Anxiety over Authentic Cultural Heritage -- Chapter 5: The Inauthentic Jew: Jewishness and Its Discontents -- Chapter 6: Asian American Identity: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly - and the Future -- Chapter 7: Coda: Living Cultures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.