In this paper I will argue that Chicana feminist artist Laura Aguilar, Alma Lopez, Laura Molina, and Yreina D. Cervantez established a continuing counter-narrative of cultural hegemony and Western essentialized hegemonic identification. Through artistic expression they have developed an oppositional discourse that challenges racial stereotypes, discrimination, socio-economic inequalities, polit...

A sepulchral air lingers about the corpus of Victorian anthropology, for it was, as its authors readily and often attested, largely the record of dead or dying peoples. Yet this was not unique to late nineteenth-century anthropology. At a fundamental level, such a sensibility has characterized popular anthropological discourse, as well as the orientation of academic anthropology, well into the ...

this study sought to investigate identity construction in english language learners using critical discourse analysis (cda). to that end, a number of western cultural points extracted from interchange series were integrated into a questionnaire, asking learners to display their own feelings, behaviors, actions and reactions to the points raised. the questionnaire-generated data coupled with int...

The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

Historians of discourse formation have demonstrated how, in the decades following the Risorgimento, Italy was fashioned as the internal ‘other’ of a new, industrial civilization that had surpassed the Mediterranean one of old. In the geopolitical map of Western Europe, Italy occupied the most distant and different territory; its proximity to Africa and the Near East, its heterogeneous racial ma...

Muslims were introduced to modern Western philosophy during the time of colonization, when they not emotionally or mentally ready absorb it and generally skeptical anything Western. This has caused an intellectual crisis, some saw new ideas from West as a direct threat Islamic identity. The point here is why Muslim societies have always been philosophy, even though accepted all without any trou...