{"id":252,"date":"2009-07-06T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=252"},"modified":"2015-03-10T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:18:15","slug":"canadian-and-being-indian-subject-positions-and-discourses-used-in-south-asian-canadian-womens-talk-about-ethnic-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"‘Canadian’ and ‘Being Indian’: Subject Positions and Discourses Used in South Asian-Canadian Women’s Talk about Ethnic Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Canadian’ and ‘Being Indian’: Subject Positions and Discourses Used in South Asian-Canadian Women’s Talk about Ethnic Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Culture & Psychology<\/a>
\nVolume 15, Number 2<\/a> (2009)
\npages 255-283
\nDOI: 10.1177\/1354067X09102893<\/a><\/p>\n

Rebecca L. Malhi<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Calgary, Canada, rmalhi@ucalgary.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan D. Boon<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Calgary, Canada<\/em>, sdboon@ucalgary.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Timothy B. Rogers<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Calgary, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Ethnic identity descriptions can be viewed as ‘subject positions’ (Davies and Harr\u00e9, 1990) that are dynamically adopted and discarded for pragmatic purposes through the medium of socialinteraction.\u00a0 Inthe present paper, we use positioning theory to explore the multiple ways our participants\u2014South Asian-Canadian women\u2014positioned themselves and others in conversations about their ethnic identity.\u00a0 A discourse analysis of participants’ talk revealed a tendency to privilege a ‘hybrid’ Canadian\/South Asian identity over a unicultural one.<\/strong>\u00a0 Moreover, in the rare instances when participants positioned themselves with a unicultural identity, subtle social pressure from conversational partners seemed to induce them to reposition themselves (or others) with a hybrid identity. We conclude by giving possible reasons for such a preference and by discussing the ways in which the current study corroborates and expands on the extant literature.<\/p>\n

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‘Canadian’ and ‘Being Indian’: Subject Positions and Discourses Used in South Asian-Canadian Women’s Talk about Ethnic Identity Culture & Psychology Volume 15, Number 2 (2009) pages 255-283 DOI: 10.1177\/1354067X09102893 Rebecca L. Malhi University of Calgary, Canada, rmalhi@ucalgary.ca Susan D. Boon University of Calgary, Canada, sdboon@ucalgary.ca Timothy B. Rogers University of Calgary, Canada Ethnic identity descriptions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,19,125,8,394,25],"tags":[451,152,448,19584,19583,449,450,19582],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-culture-psychology","tag-hybridity","tag-rebecca-l-malhi","tag-rebecca-malhi","tag-susan-boon","tag-susan-d-boon","tag-timothy-b-rogers","tag-timothy-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}