Roksana Alavi

Iranian Identity, American Experience

Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities, and Oppression

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Philosophy of Race
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781498575096
• ISBN-10: 1498575099
• Artikelnr.: 60603668

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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