Roksana Alavi

Iranian Identity, American Experience (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities, and Oppression

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978757929
• Artikelnr.: 74398010

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 philosophy department and 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