Reinventing and Contesting Identities in Constitutive Discourses: Between Diaspora and Its Others.

This paper explores how diasporic identities are reinvented through constitutive rhetoric to legitimate certain forms of collective power and action. Diasporic collectivities are constituted in relationship to nation-state systems as well as other groups with whom they share histories and compete to...

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Published in:Communication Quarterly Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 1 - 24
Main Author: Drzewiecka, Jolanta A.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Winter2002
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        Poles -- United States -- Ethnic identity
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