Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical ExaminationsPosted in Anthologies, Books, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Social Science on 2015-07-03 19:13Z by Steven |
Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations
Haymarket Books
2009
412 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9781608460359
Edited by:
Keri E. Iyall Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology
Suffolk University, Boston
Combining theoretical and empirical pieces, this book explores the emerging theoretical work seeking to describe hybrid identities while also illustrating the application of these theories in empirical research.The sociological perspective of this volume sets it apart. Hybrid identities continue to be predominant in minority or immigrant communities, but these are not the only sites of hybridity in the globalized world. Given a compressed world and a constrained state, identities for all individuals and collective selves are becoming more complex. The hybrid identity allows for the perpetuation of the local, in the context of the global. This book presents studies of types of hybrid identities: transnational, double consciousness, gender, diaspora, the third space, and the internal colony.