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- Title
'It's Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black': Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community.
- Authors
Howarth, Caroline; Wagner, Wolfgang; Magnusson, Nicola; Sammut, Gordon
- Abstract
This article explores identity work and acculturation work in the lives of British mixed-heritage children and adults. Children, teenagers, and parents with mixed heritage participated in a community arts project that invited them to deliberate, construct, and reconstruct their cultural identities and cultural relations. We found that acculturation, cultural and raced identities, are constructed through a series of oppositional themes: cultural maintenance versus cultural contact; identity as inclusion versus identity as exclusion; institutionalized ideologies versus agency. The findings point towards an understanding of acculturation as a dynamic, situated, and multifaceted process: acculturation in movement. To investigate this, we argue that acculturation research needs to develop a more dynamic and situated approach to the study of identity, representation, and culture. The article concludes with a discussion on the need for political psychologists to develop methods attuned to the tensions and politics of acculturation that are capable of highlighting the possibilities for resistance and social change.
- Subjects
ACCULTURATION; CULTURAL identity; MULTIRACIAL identity; CULTURAL maintenance; RACE relations in Great Britain
- Publication
Political Psychology, 2014, Vol 35, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0162-895X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pops.12020