Problematizing Identity

This book argues that identity as a term needs to be problematized, not taken for granted - for both the risks and the potential that the concept offers to educators for understanding issues of social inequality and how social inequality is being reproduced, and for exploring possible alternative ways educators can work with identity de/formation p

Preface 1. The Identity Game and Discursive Struggles of Everyday Life: An Introduction, Angel M. Y. Lin 2. The Problem with Identity, Beverley Skeggs 3. Making Class through Fragmenting Culture, Beverley Skeggs 4. Towards a Disharmonious Pluralism: Discourse Analysis of Official Discourses on Social Diversity, Lena Martinsson and Eva Reimers 5. Being Asian in English: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the American Professoriate, Joseph S. Eng 6. White Women Teachers in Indigenous Classrooms: Ruptures and Discords of Self, Jan Connelly 7. Discourses of Schooling, Constructions of Masculinity, and Boys' Noncompletion of Secondary School in North Queensland, Australia, Ingrid Harrington 8. Language and Identity in Transgender: Gender Wars and the Thai Kathoey, Sam Winter 9. Gendered Self-Representations: How the World's Successful Women and Men Speak in Journalistic Interviews, Maya Khemlani-David and Janet Yong 10. The Immigrant Wo(man) and Gendered Access to Second Language Use and Development: The Case of a Vietnamese Couple in the States, Jette G. Hansen Edwards 11. Co-Constructing Prejudiced Talk: Ethnic Stereotyping in Intercultural Communication between Hong Kong Chinese and English-Speaking Westerners, Winnie Cheng 12. Out-Performing Identities, John Nguyet Erni 13. Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Future of Identity: Implications for Educators, Angel M. Y. Lin Contributing Authors Index