Race and Identity
Race and Identity
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种族与身份
DOI:
10.1080/03060497.1991.11085170
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发表时间:
1991
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通讯作者:
Y. Craig
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作者:
Bhavesh Singh;Y. Craig
I found Yvonne Craig's' Plural Identity Theory'in Self and Society November 1990 very interesting. Readers of Self and Society may like to know that there are many'multi-group'theories-Rupert Brown's book Group Process published in 1988 for example. I do not want to discuss these theories myself but I would like to offer, from my own experience, some reflections on what Yvonne Craig has written. There are many groups of people who have their own norms and identity within the bigger framework of society. The Gujerati community in Britain, for example, consider themselves first and foremost Gujerati and then Indian even if they were born in the UK and speak no other language than English. Language seems to be an important part of identity. Actually most of the Asians of my generation-I am in my twenties-speak a native dialect fluently. This is particularly true of the Sikh community in Southall UK who speak Punjabi and can usually understand some Hindi as well.Yvonne Craig's discussion of Muslims is interesting. Rejection by the'in-group', including white and black non-muslims seem to have enhanced'out-group'identity and contributed to the writing of works such as the Muslim Manifesto. As for geographical'zones of transition'they seem to be largely inevitable. Given that integration and equality of opportunity were not features of life enjoyed by blacks when they came to the UK in the 1950's the geographical and social'zones of transition'were places for them to stay together away from the whites who had departed for the suburbs. I see tht: