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

Informationen zum Autor 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 philosophy department and Iranian studies and women and gender studies programs. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Roksana Alavi
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2023
• EAN: 9781498575119
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7511-9
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Social discrimination and social justice