Iranian Identity, American Experience
Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities, and Oppression- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2021
Summary
Iranian Identity, American Experience: Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities and Oppression is a multidisciplinary study of oppression using the Iranian American community as its case study. In current studies of oppression, there is little philosophical analysis or a theoretical framework to think about race from the perspective of an immigrant community in the United States that appears to be educated and affluent. Iranian Identity, American Experience fills this gap. Alavi discusses a theory of oppression that addresses not only the external oppression inflicted on people of color but also the everyday actions that leave them in oppressive situations. The book ends with suggestions for addressing oppression both individually and as a collective and for fighting to minimize its harms.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2021
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4985-7509-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4985-7510-2
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 152
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter One My Life in the Triangle No access Pages 1 - 21
- Chapter Two What Are You? No access Pages 22 - 52
- Chapter Three Voluntary Oppression No access Pages 53 - 73
- Chapter Four Bridging the Gap Between Rights and Capabilities No access Pages 74 - 105
- Chapter Five Harms of Oppression No access Pages 106 - 118
- Chapter Six Responding to Oppression No access Pages 119 - 128
- Bibliography No access Pages 129 - 140
- Index No access Pages 141 - 150
- About the Author No access Pages 151 - 152





