Publication

2015 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC306.44
  • LCCP302.84 .M37 2015

Description

"Western society has become increasingly diverse and inclusive, but stereotypes still pervade public discourse. How do people who for different reasons have a marked status in society manage their identity and respond to stereotypes? This edited volume explores this issue with people who either belong to a culturally salient group - Travellers, Jewish survivors, Canadian First Nation women, ex DDR citizens - or whose circumstances make them potential targets of discrimination - teenage mothers, homeless people, substance users and individuals with autism. The interviews in these chapters reveal how their life narratives resist, change or incorporate society's views about them"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Marked identities: narrating lives between social labels and individual biographiesPalgrave Macmillan2015-01-01

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