Who Are We? - Younge, Gary
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"We are more alike than we are unalike. But the way we are unalike matters. To be male in Saudi Arabia, Jewish in Israel, or white in Europe confers certain powers and privileges that those with other identities do not have. In other words, identity can represent a material fact in itself ... How we define ourselves affects every part of our lives: from violence on the streets to international terrorism; from changes in our laws to whom we elect; from our personal safety to military occupations ... Gary Younge makes surprising ... connections and a ... critique of the way our society really works"--Publisher marketing.…mehr

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"We are more alike than we are unalike. But the way we are unalike matters. To be male in Saudi Arabia, Jewish in Israel, or white in Europe confers certain powers and privileges that those with other identities do not have. In other words, identity can represent a material fact in itself ... How we define ourselves affects every part of our lives: from violence on the streets to international terrorism; from changes in our laws to whom we elect; from our personal safety to military occupations ... Gary Younge makes surprising ... connections and a ... critique of the way our society really works"--Publisher marketing.
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Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at TheGuardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media Center. He has written five books: Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King's Dream; Who Are We?, And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South. He has also written for The New York Review of Books, Granta, GQ, Financial Times and TheNew Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. He lives in London with his wife and two children.