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Who Are We-And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?
Gary Younge
Nation Books
July 2011
On Sale: June 28, 2011
256 pages ISBN: 1568586604 EAN: 9781568586601 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From those who insist that Barack Obama is Muslim to the
European legislators who go to extraordinary lengths to ban
items of clothing worn by a tiny percentage of their
populations, Gary Younge shows, in this fascinating, witty,
and provocative examination of the enduring legacy and
obsession with identity in politics and everyday life, that
how we define ourselves informs every aspect of our social,
political, and personal lives. Younge--a black British male of Caribbean descent living in
Brooklyn, New York, who speaks fluent Russian and
French--travels the planet in search of answers to why
identity is so combustible. From Tiger Woods's legacy to the
scandal over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, he
finds that identity is inescapable, but solidarity may not
be as elusive as we fear.
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