...written. As a second edition of the original 1994 text, it is particularly useful to note that some of the authors have chosen to review and revise their earlier formulations and understandings of self in relation to race, ethnicity, and culture such as Isoki and Khayatt. The collection, as a whole, illustrates the ways in which identity can no longer be thought of as transparent and unproblematic. The discourses represented are varied, with some aligning themselves with more traditional understandings of identity formation as rooted in history and memory, while others might more accurately be identified with a post-structuralist understanding of identity that recognizes fluidity as well as plurality. The collection provides a useful and complex opening to issues of identity and differences through illustration of the varied ways in which the individual author's identities get played out through daily interaction.

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