This article addresses the role of border and borderscapes in two contemporary texts by writers based Britain, Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to Edge Europe [Kassabova, Kapka. 2017. Europe. London: Granta] Ben Judah’s Is Life Death World City [Judah, Ben. 2016. is City. Picador]. Reading these as narratives context discourses on Brexit, shows how challenge general bordering tendency repres...

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race is a 2017 revised updated edition to Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s original book written 1997. The explores decades of research on psychology racism, with an emphasis racial identity Black, White, other ethnic cultural identities. author helps readers gain better understanding historic modern racism implic...

abstract the purpose of this cultural study was the analysis of political identities construction in an efl context. our site of struggle for the analysis was a private institution and the related variables were english textbooks, six teachers and six learners as our cases. our whole data collection took from 23 september 2010 to 30 september 2011. our theoretical framework was inspired by cons...

writing projects are socially-situated identities. the rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities. through analyzing metadiscourse strategies employment in persian and english (as the lingua franca of academic discourse community) research articles, this study makes an attempt to find out whether persian native writers take on the...

This study investigated the relationships among ethnicity of a messenger, the cultural relevance of a message, Latino ethnic identity, and several cognitive and affective measures. A sample of 156 Latino students enrolled in a small southwestern university served as the participants. They were randomly assigned to one of four groups assigned to read an editorial message: a Latinocentric message...

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants and the natives, and provides an analysis in understanding their interactions. The issue of how immig...

BACKGROUND A mental health advantage has been observed among adolescents in urban areas. This prospective study tests whether cultural integration measured by cross-cultural friendships explains a mental health advantage for adolescents. METHODS A prospective cohort of adolescents was recruited from 51 secondary schools in 10 London boroughs. Cultural identity was assessed by friendship choic...