extension of my personal researches and critical practice in the field of postmodernism, particularly within the area of postmodernist poetry. There has been a critical interest in political and cultural issues of race, difference and identity in the African-American poetry since the late eighties of the twentieth century. However, little attention has been given to James Baldwin's poetry and its aesthetical side. My PhD project underpins the issues of race, difference, identity and technique in…
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an explosion of writing was recognized from Black women, women of color, and transnational feminist scholars that redirected the White hegemonic feminist theory. This chapter is an archive of challenging debates from various forms of scholarship on race, nationality, sexuality, class, gender, and transnationalism. In addition, these writings express the experiences of marginalized women that were ignored. The authors have divided this chapter into three subsections, Intersectionality, Social Processes/Configuring…
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18 Critical Discourse Analysis TEUN A. VAN DIJK 0 Introduction: What Is Critical Discourse Analysis? Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. With such dissident research, critical discourse analysts take explicit position, and thus want to understand, expose, and ultimately resist social inequality…
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Within the problematic nature of race in the United States, Walter Mignolo in his article Citizenship, Knowledge, and the Limits of Humanity delves into the historical construction of "The Human" and "the citizen" within the European tradition, where these concepts were intertwined with notions of property and racial ideologies. This entanglement has perpetuated racial distinctions and hierarchies in the U.S.. Mignolo highlights the transformation of societal structures with the emergence of the…
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and the shifting meanings ascribed to them by both the perceiver and the perceived. An area of identity, such as gender, cannot be understood as a pure construct from other aspects of identity; in effect, gender is raced and classed. Identities of race, class, gender, culture, sexual orientation, age, religion, or disability have a sociohistorical and political focus but are held by individuals who make meaning of them in contextual and shifting ways. Although it cannot generate one-size-fits-all…
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as prejudice against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Today, it might be more appropriate to address the issue of white supremacy than racism because white people refuse to see racism as a fundamental white issue due to white privilege. Privileges are bestowed on white people by the institutions with which they interact solely because of their race, not because they are deserving as…
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This framework can be used effectively when exploring any number of social issues in which there are power inequities within which individuals are marginalized (O’Connor & O’Neill, 2004). While there are many different conceptualizations of the theoretical foundations of social justice theory, there is a consistent description of the themes addressed within this framework. These themes include: equity/fairness, access, participation/inclusion, and harmony/respect (Lyons et al., 2013; Sander, Sharkey…
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nation's founding fathers. This comparative review will be used to assess the strengths and weaknesses that come from each work and examine their contributions to our understanding of American history and the legacy of the founding fathers. Through analysis of key aspects…
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Tuathail and the Taft-Kaufman card combined, as well as some reverse causal claims Attempts to critique risk analysis fail and turn the K Rigakos and Law 9 (George, Assistant Professor of Law at Carleton University, and Alexandra, Carleton University, “Risk, Realism and the Politics of Resistance”, Critical Sociology 35(1) 79-103, dml) This discourse has provided an important critical counterpoint to the alarming proliferation of technocratic risk thinking that dominates criminal justice planning…
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Therefore, the management’s task is to analyze the employee’s reactions and more so, their possible reasons for making certain decisions. The most critical issue is to make rational judgments on the employees and understand their reasons for making particular decisions. Every human being has grown into his own set of beliefs, world views, culture and personality trait making him naturally biased towards…
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