Iranian Identity, American Experience - Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities, and

This multidisciplinary book brings the topics of rights, identity, and race together to examine what it means to be oppressed, how oppression works, and what we both as individuals and as a community can do about it, using the Iranian American community as a case study.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: My Life in the Triangle
Chapter Two: What Are You?: A Discussion on Race, Ethnicity, and (Iranian) Identity
Chapter Three: Voluntary Oppression
Chapter Four: Bridging the Gap Between Rights and Capabilities
Chapter Five: Harms of Oppression
Chapter Six: Responding to Oppression
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Roksana Alavi is associate (term) professor of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Oklahoma College of Professional and Continuing Studies and affiliate faculty member in the Iranian studies, and women and gender studies programs.

Summary

This multidisciplinary book brings the topics of rights, identity, and race together to examine what it means to be oppressed, how oppression works, and what we both as individuals and as a community can do about it, using the Iranian American community as a case study.

Product details

• Authors: Roksana Alavi
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781498575096
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7509-6
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Social discrimination & equal treatment, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination