@article{437351,
      author = {Jenlink, Patrick M. and Townes, Faye Hicks,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437351},
      title = {The struggle for identity in today's schools cultural  recognition in a time of increasing diversity / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield Education,},
      abstract = {The Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools examines  cultural recognition and the struggle for identity in  America's schools. In particular, the contributing authors  focus on the recognition and misrecognition as antagonistic  cultural forces that work to shape, and at times distort  identity. What surfaces throughout the chapters are two  lessons to be learned in relation to identity. The first  lesson is that identities and the acts attributed to them  are always forming and re-forming in relation  tohistorically specific contexts, and these contexts are  political in nature, i.e., defined by issues of diversity  such as race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation,  gender, and economics. The second lesson presented by the  authors is that identity forms in and across intimate and  social contexts, over long periods of time. The historical  timing of identity formation cannot simply be dictated by  discourse. The identities posited by any particular  discourse become important and a part of everyday life  based on the intersection of social histories and social  actors. Importantly, the social-cultural use of identities  leads to another way of conceptualizing histories,  personhoods, cultures, and their distributions over social  and political groups.},
      recid = {437351},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 218 p.)},
      address = {Lanham :},
      year = {2009},
}