"...So I Decided to Be a Pole..." by Ines Ackermann

“…In some cases we can remark a conscious creation of one’s own ethnic identity, some even describe a moment in their lives, when they decided to be a Pole. …”
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Aiolian ethnicity: myth, culture, and performance by Wilson, ARJ

“…</p> <p>The thesis comprises studies of individual aspects of Aiolian ethnic identity. A preliminary chapter reviews the recent historiography of ethnicity in the modern and ancient worlds, with a particular focus on the characteristics employed to study it. …”

Microbuses and Mobile Homemaking in Exile: Sudanese Visiting Strategies in Cairo by Anita Fábos

“…In this article, I argue that this long-term uncertainty constitutes a protracted refugee situation, and that Sudanese visiting practices constituted a mobile homemaking strategy that actively contributed to the negotiation of a complex ethnic identity in their protracted exile. Ranging across space and connecting people through experiences and values of Sudanese “homeyness,” visiting during these fraught years connected individuals and networks into constellations that recreated familiar patterns of homemaking but also encouraged new meanings granted to homeland and belonging. …”
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The Fear of Tautology as Esthetic and Ethic Category by Arkady B. Kovelman

“…Sergey Averinsev described Mandelstam’s dread of confining himself within a religious or ethnic identity as a “profound fear of tautology.” Finally, French philosopher Clément Rosset named tautology “the demon of identity” in the sense of it being sorcery and a magical circle. …”
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Writing Orality as a Postcolonial Strategy by Hannah Lalhlanpuii

“…Hence, writings from this region in recent years often engage with themes of orality in their narratives in order to reclaim their ethnic identity and retrieve their pre-colonial history and values. …”
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Stigma and Relationship Quality: The Relevance of Racial-Ethnic Worldview in Interracial Relationships in the United States by James E. Brooks, Megan M. Morrison

“…Most notable is that individuals who acknowledge institutional racism, have positive intergroup attitudes, and a positive ethnic identity reported better relationship quality than those who denied institutional racism and/or had less positive attitudes toward their own ethnic group. …”
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Our voices matter: Young black women’s experiences of identity formation within higher education by Shona Dionne Francis

“…In today’s social context and Higher Education (HE), a disproportionate number of Black students experience alienation, discrimination and sense of ‘otherness’ because of the racial and/or ethnic identity to which they belong. The intersection of their racial and gendered identity is potentially and undoubtedly influencing their university experiences more generally – positively and negatively. …”
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TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA & RESILIANCE: THE UNTHOUGHT KNOWN - NAMELESS RUPTURE AND REPAIR by Biljana Bujko

“…The final focus is on the psychology of the Macedonian ethnic identity, specifically reflecting on the Aegean Exodus and the wounds of the transgenerational trauma among this ethnic group. …”
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Identitas Kultural dan Gerakan Politik Kerapatan Adat Kurai dalam Representasi Politik Lokal by IRAWATI IRAWATI

“…The strength of ethnic identity became public phenomena later gained momentum in West Sumatera<br />when Nagari introducied be formal goverment. …”
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On Strike and On Stage: Migration, Mobilization, and the Cultural Work of El Teatro Campesino by Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder

“…The essay explores the methods by which El Teatro Campesino questioned and critiqued ethnic identity and argues for a more complex approach to their earlier picket-line entertainment. …”
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Exploring the Use of South African Ethnic and Racial Slurs on Social Media by Sonia Mbowa

“…Social media interlocutors recognise the words “kaffir”, “coolie”, “Hottentot” and “makwerekwere” as strongly tied to power and racial/ethnic identity and deliberately use them to provoke controversial debates and to construct “us vs. them” scenarios. …”
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Orthodox Christian Bulgarians Coping with Natural Disasters in the Pre-Modern Ottoman Balkans by Raymond Detrez

“…Premodern Ottoman society consisted of four major religious communities—Muslims, Orthodox Christians, Armenian Christians, and Jews; the Muslim and Christian communities also included various ethnic groups, as did Muslim Arabs and Turks, Orthodox Christian Bulgarians, Greeks, and Serbs who identified, in the first place, with their religious community and considered ethnic identity of secondary importance. Having lived together, albeit segregated within the borders of the Ottoman Empire, for centuries, Bulgarians and Turks to a large extent shared the same world view and moral value system and tended to react in a like manner to various events. …”
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LA(S) IDENTIDAD(ES) MAPUCHE(S) DESDE LA CIUDAD GLOBAL EN MAPURBE VENGANZA A RAÍZ DE DAVID ANIÑIR by María José Barros Cruz

“…<br>This article is an analysis ofthe poetical work Mapurbe venganza a raíz, by David Aniñir, where Mapuche ethnic identity is given a new meaning, thanks to a new writing scenary: the city of Santiago in the global era. …”
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Towards ethno-political advocacy: Ethiopian journalists’ professional role perceptions in post-EPRDF interregnum by Behailu Atinafu Dessie, Adem Chanie Ali, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges

“…AbstractThe study aims at investigating the interplay between the ethnic identity politics and journalists’ role perceptions in contemporary Ethiopian media landscape. …”
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The Danube Homeland of the Slavs in the Tale of Bygone Years: A Problem of Interpretation by Denis Alimov

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the image of the Danube homeland of the Slavs was not a bookish construction but a reflection of the ethnic realities of the early Middle Ages, when the Carpathian basin was the core area of the Slavic ethnic identity. According to the author, the formation of the idea that the Middle Danube Slavic land was the primary homeland of the Slavs was also the result of the perception of the Slavs as autochthonous inhabitants of Illyricum and Pannonia, which existed in Rome in the time of the Pannonian diocese of Methodius and probably influenced the formation of Slavic ethnogenetic legends through Cyril’s and Methodius’s cultural and ideological legacy.…”
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Second-generation immigrant Indian's identity formation: An intersectional study of pan-ethnicity, gender, and religion by Saheeh Shafi

“…This paper explores the multi-dimensional Asian American identity of immigrant Indians from their interview responses. Pan-ethnic identity of Indians in the US as Asian Americans, the Mar Thoma Church community for religious identity, and the second-generation Patel family’s union formation in terms of gender identity will be analyzed to find out the reasons behind their choice of a particular identity. …”
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Kohalikud tavad ja pühaduse poliitika Trakai järvestiku piirkonnas by Lina Leparskienė

“…This article approaches components of the genius loci of Trakai, interpreting this concept through the lenses of the politics of the protected areas in Lithuania, asserting it was closely intertwined with an idea of sacrum, based on the aim to represent regional specifics and ethnic identity of the Lithuanian nation. Based on long-term personal observations of how values and regulations of the historical national park of Trakai evolved and were introduced in the local context in practice, a critical approach is applied concerning the separation of the local community from their decision-making about the symbolic or physical usage of their surroundings. …”
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CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOG AS A PEDAGOGICAL INSTRUMENT OF MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS. by L. N. Kozina

“…Consequently, the cross-cultural dialogue and its further reflection hel p to develo p active life attitude and readiness for  professional activity in a situation of multicultural diversity; on the other hand, it develo ps students’ ethnic identity, em pathy, and ability to re present the native culture. …”
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Struggling for Multiculturalism: The Revival of Chinese Festivals in Three Cities of Java during the Post-Reformation Era and Its Challenges by Evi Lina Sutrisno

“…In the Reformation era, the Chinese-Indonesians enjoy more freedom in expressing their ethnic identity in the public sphere, which was once oppressed under Soeharto’s New Order (1967-1998). …”
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Prejudice and Religious Conflict : Dispositive Analysis of Film “Nama Saya Ahmad” by Dwi Wahyuni, Ahmad Ali Nurdin

“…Socio-cultural disparities, political dominance, inequality in economic distribution, and differences in religious or ethnic identity are more dominantly understood as causes of conflict. …”
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