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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
EAN num: 9780813534015
ISBN number: 0813534011
Label: Rutgers University Press
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Page Count: 224
Printing Date: 2004-05
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Who is 'authentic' and who is 'other' in a given culture? Who can speak for the 'other?' What do we mean by authenticity? These are critical questions that today's world--brought closer together and yet pulled farther apart by globalism and neocolonialism--has been unable to answer. Inauthentic compellingly probes these issues through revealing case studies on the pursuit of authenticity and identity.
Each chapter explores the ways in which we construct 'authenticity' in order to replace seemingly vacated identities, including: the place of minorities in academia; mixed-race dynamics; the popularity of Irish culture in America; the Good Saturday agreement in Northern Ireland; Jewish American identity; the status of Jewish America in relation to Israel and Palestine; the cultural problems of international adoptions; and the quickly changing nature of the Asian American population in the United States.
Written in an accessible style, Inauthentic presents provocative analyses of contemporary notions of identity to academic scholars as well as a broad reading audience.
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