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Jaya, Peruvemba S. – Qualitative Report, 2011
The study is focused on understanding identity construction through combining my own experience with the theoretical underpinnings of postcolonial theory, social identity theory and through the examination of two films. The central question that I am interested in is understanding the identity construction and formation process especially as it…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, Immigrants, Autobiographies
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Mittapalli, Kavita – Qualitative Report, 2009
Using narrative inquiry, I tell the story of an Asian Indian student attending a large mid-Atlantic university who approached me in the summer of 2002 for my master's thesis interview. She was an Indian by birth who was adopted by White parents when she was an infant. She had not been to India since. Her story provided me with rich insights into…
Descriptors: Siblings, Indians, Foreign Countries, Adoption
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Ricciardelli, Rosemary; White, Philip – Qualitative Report, 2011
In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable rather than fixed, which has opened space for the remaking of the self via the remaking of the body (Featherstone, 1991; Giddens, 1991). Among men, this process is thought to interact with shifting understandings of masculinity. In this study, 14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Self Concept, Human Body