Representation Of Ethnic Identity Research Articles

Цифровая этнография: методологические основания в культурологическом исследовании этнической манифестации

Abstract The emergence and development of a global communication space leads to the transformation of the territorial and social structures of society, both on a global scale and in relation to a single territory, which in turn transforms the cultural system in general and ethnic culture in particular. Marshall McLuhan, one of the main theorists of the field of new media, stated about such transformations back in 1964, defining modern culture as a culture based on electricity, and also stating that due to the limitless development of information, people become involved in each other's affairs at the level of involvement in their own problems. The article is of an overview nature. It is devoted to the consistent consideration of some classical (despite its short history of the development of the direction at the moment) and modern theories of digital ethnography, conceptual and methodological approaches, the main provisions of the study of ethnic manifestation. The article also focuses on the potential of online communities as a space for the representation of ethnic identity and its manifestation, presented today in an interactive environment. It is noted that the ethnic manifestation formed in the Internet sphere is constructed based on the degree of mediation and remediation of the individual and the entire ethno-cultural group. It is important to note that the self-representation of indigenous peoples in the interactive space sometimes becomes the only possible option for them. Digital ethnographic research is carried out faster chronologically and richer in terms of immersion in the object of research. The key problems of ethnographic methods are considered to be distrust of the researcher due to the novelty of the scientific field, a wary attitude to empirical material in cyberethnography – data collection in online communities causes skepticism, as far as the received array of information can be considered empirical material.

Screaming “Black” Murder: Crime Fiction and the Construction of Ethnic Identities

ABSTRACTA significant segment of crime fiction is concerned with the representation of ethnic identities and may to some extent be considered paradigmatic of the participation of literary texts in discourses on race and minorities. This article explores constructions of ethnic identities in American, British, and South African crime fiction from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. In particular, the focus is on such texts in which the ethno-cultural identity of the detective gives special prominence not only to the ethnic particularity of the fictional character itself and of its environs but frequently also to that of its author. Main texts discussed are Rudolph Fisher’s The Conjure Man Dies (1932), Earl Derr Biggers’ The House Without a Key (1925) and The Black Camel (1929), Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) and Little Scarlet (2004) as well as James McClure’s The Gooseberry Fool (1974) and Patrick Neate’s City of Tiny Lights (2005). It is argued that all of these texts have a distinct subversive potential of which the construction of ethnic identities becomes the main vehicle because these identities are the products and the catalysts of the conflicts negotiated in ethnic crime fiction and correlating to “reality”.

The ethnic culture and the representation of ethnic identity through the internet

The ethnic culture and the representation of ethnic identity through the internet

Turnen beyond gymnastics: dynamic figurations in a space of sport practices

A Tunrverein Santa Cruz (Sociedade Ginástica Santa Cruz) foi fundada em 1893, no atual município de Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Este estudo investiga como a Sociedade Ginástica Santa Cruz se configurou em um espaço de representações de práticas esportivas e identidades étnicas, entre as décadas de 1880 e 1910. A partir da análise documental de fontes impressas foi evidenciado que, no período abarcado pelo estudo, esta associação esportiva foi um espaço singular de configurações dinâmicas, promovendo o culto ao corpo como meio de identificação do ser alemão, bem como, a sociabilidade e a diferenciação social de uma parcela etnicamente determinada de santa-cruzenses.

CONFIGURAÇÕES DE IDENTIDADES ÉTNICAS EM ASSOCIAÇÕES ESPORTIVAS: PRÁTICAS E REPRESENTAÇÕES CULTURAIS

A presente pesquisa investiga como as associações esportivas de tiro ao alvo e cavalaria de Santa Cruz do Sul se configuraram em espaços de representações de identidades étnicas, entre o final do século XIX e começo do XX. As fontes impressas analisadas evidenciaram que os atiradores e cavaleiros afirmavam e reconfiguravam representações de identidades teuto-brasileiras através das associações esportivas, de forma plural e fluida, em uma relação dinâmica com o espaço sociocultural.

Casting ethnicity: representation of ethnic identities in contemporary Sri Lankan teledrama

Casting ethnicity: representation of ethnic identities in contemporary Sri Lankan teledrama

Representation of ethnic identity in North American social work literature: a dossier of the Chinese people.

Ethnic and cultural identities of people who are not white in North America are conceived as natural and fixed categories. Such conceptualizations are associated with a tendency to take ethnicity as a client characteristic instead of understanding ethnic and cultural differences as constituted by the engagement between social worker and client. Using Foucault's dossier approach, the author uses the Chinese people as a case example to illustrate the politics of identification and identity assignment in professional social work literature in North America. The literature was selected from the Social Work Abstracts database from 1977 to 1997. The article reveals how Chinese people are "essentialized," "otherized," and negatively positioned as an ethnic construct. Four major arguments are presented together with their implications for cross-cultural social work practice.