1. Class Notes
   Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   Reed argues against the solipsistic approaches of cultural or identity politics, and in favour of class-based political interpretation and action. Class Notes moves on to tackle race relations, ethnic studies, family values, welfare reform, the so-called underclass, and black public intellectuals.
2. Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
3. In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   It is just as well that I’m a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.
4. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
5. Made in America
   An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   A history of American English.
6. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 2016
   This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
   We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
   This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
   Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
   Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
   Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
7. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
8. Politics of Communication
   A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1973
   
9. Strange Fruit
   Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
10. Time to celebrate real heroes, like the one just lost
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    If you want to meet the best Australians, meet Indigenous men and women who understand this extraordinary country and have fought for the rights of the world's oldest culture. Theirs is a struggle more selfless, heroic and enduring than any historical adventure non-Indigenous Australians are required incessantly to celebrate.
11. Tokyo National Museum
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
12. The Young Lords' Legacy of Puerto Rican Activism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    A short history of the Young Lords, a group that used confrontational tactics to bring services and attention to the residents of East Harlem, or El Barrio, and beyond.

Experts on Cultural Identity in the Sources Directory

1. Council of Europe
2. Tokyo National Museum