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This paper contributes to disentangling hybridity from assumptions about marginality, resistance and the dissolution of boundaries in sociolinguistic scholarship. To do so, it examines how speakers make certain types of hybrid identities (im)possible through their discursive practices of scaling. Focusing on post‐soviet, Central Asian migrants in the United States, I demonstrate how their discourses on ethnolinguistic identity rely on multiple scalar perspectives, which (re)make boundaries in different ways that (dis)allow for hybrid identities to emerge. I show that speakers engage in such discourses in order to navigate their marginal transnational positionings, and that their emergent hybrid identities do not ensure resistance to national norms or transcend categorical boundaries. These empirical observations, I argue, have implications for conceptualizing the relationship between power, marginality and hybrid forms more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cues delivered by agents are known to trigger mental shortcuts associated with ontological category or the kind of thing an agent is. Two such heuristics are key to considering organic and machine agents, and result in biased evaluations: the machine heuristic (MH) (if machine, then systematic/unbiased, therefore its products are good) and the nature heuristic (NH) (if natural, then pure/innate, therefore good). As machine agents such as robots are increasingly integrated into human spheres, it is yet unknown (a) if invocation of agent-cued heuristics is inherently tied to activities and (b) whether either/both heuristics are evoked when agents exhibit both organic and machinic properties (as with cyborgs). To investigate these open questions, a 3 × 2 experiment tasked individuals with considering a magazine article about an agent (organism, cyborg, robot) performing behaviors (natural, technical) to solve a widespread problem, and then evaluating the agent and its solution for markers of machine and NHs. Findings indicate that the NH may be dominant over the MH; however, this primacy may be driven by operational contexts. Post hoc analysis suggests that agent category grounds interpretations of agent behaviors that, in turn, drive biased evaluations of behavioral outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract This narrative inquiry examines, through a theoretical framework informed by Bhabha, experiences of two graduates of a social justice-oriented preservice program in the U.S. in an era of standards-based reform. This article demonstrates that schools are sites shaped and constrained by various competing discourses, which delineate meanings of education in drastically different ways. The participants encounter conflicting demands and desires. Negotiating among what seems incommensurable is an important part of their teaching. The participants deploy the politics of hybridity as a creative tactic for their daily negotiations. The implications for teacher education are discussed. Highlights • The teacher participants encounter conflicting demands and desires constituted by competing discourses of education. • Negotiating among what seems incommensurable is an important part of their teaching. • The teachers deploy the politics of hybridity as a tactic for the negotiation. • The teachers re-signify what they find limiting and produce supplemental knowledge and practice. • Through the production of hybridity, the teachers make temporal interruption of "the reality". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2016, Viki.com and Netflix added the web drama Dramaworld to their libraries. The move represents a digital and transnational shift in programming and production. Co-produced by China's Jetavana Entertainment, South Korea's EnterMedia, and the US's Third Culture Content, Dramaworld signals the escalation of post-national television production. The show emerges where the splash of the 'Korean Wave' has flowed apart from and against flows of US-mediated domination, creating new possibilities for hybrid media. It simultaneously challenges cultural imperialism with the force of Korean soft power while also constructing the White female fan as the desired audience. This example of transnational co-production uses the global fan to mediate and reconfigure the shifting power relations between the US and Korea, thus providing a window into the ideological work performed by global media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With benefits international students bring to campus, universities have adopted aggressive recruitment practices and increased institutional support for their retention and positive college engagement (Hegarty, 2014). Due to globalization, increasing numbers of international students enter college with multiple cultural/national affiliations (Gomes, Berry, Alzougool, & Chang, 2014). Yet, little is known about these complex identities and how they shape students' experiences in U.S. higher education. Using Schlossberg's Transition Theory, the article leverages interview data to theorize hybrid national/cultural identities of five "international" undergraduate students at a private university on the Eastern seaboard. Although the institution used passport information to categorize student nationality, participants chose to self-identify less categorically. Our discussion recommends dialogue around international students' identity constructs to thoughtfully affirm hybridity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how Africans born or raised in the United States employ ethnicity to understand their racial and cultural identities. I argue that African immigrants engage positive narratives about Africa along with their experiences of anti-black racism to articulate identities as "Africans of the world". I call this articulation of identity Afropolitan projects. The Afropolitan as an ethnicity is not meant to shield Africans from anti-black racism, but instead helps articulate a particular relationship to this form of inequality. The following analysis derives from a qualitative case study of a voluntary association comprising Ghanaians primarily raised in the United States. I find that the group's identity is as much about being black, African, and American as it is about being middle-class, Christian, and heterosexual. Through their Afropolitan projects, this group emphasizes solidarities with a global middleclass heterosexual patriarchy while foreclosing solidarities with working class, queer, and other people of colour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Forces of globalization pose challenges and opportunities for understanding the impact of global media, especially discourses of superheroes at the intersection of the global and the local. Using the lens of Structuration Theory, the authors examine how Chinese sojourners make sense of media constructions of superheroes. A focus group interview method and thematic analysis of the interview texts were conducted. Findings in this study revealed both culturally universal constructions of prototypical superheroes and culturally specific, localized Chinese (super)heroes. Besides confirming the dominance of Western-centric superhero structures as gendered male and raced White, the results also suggest an emerging hybrid (super)hero archetype that is both real and imagined and embodies both Eastern and Western cultural values and orientations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I analyze my border performances of becoming and being as an embodied text to explicate, elucidate, and elaborate culturally hybrid practices of intercultural transition. I pay close attention to unpack the material realities of my hybridity as I continue to live within and beyond queer (or non-heteronormative) Japan-US transnational borderland. In so doing, I aim to illustrate (dis)connections between my identity negotiation processes and the multiple significances of queer Asian/American male identity construction to disrupt the heteronormative modes of thinking about intercultural transitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indigenous people and communities are establishing social enterprises to address social disadvantage and overcome health inequities in their communities. This review sought to characterize the spectrum of Indigenous social enterprises in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States to identify the operational models and cultural values that underpin them and their impact on Indigenous health and wellbeing. The scoping review followed Arksey and O'Malley's six-stage methodological framework with recommended enhancements by Levac et al. underpinned by Indigenous Standpoint Theory, and an Indigenous advisory group to provide cultural oversight and direction. Of the 589 documents screened 115 documents were included in the review. A conceptual framework of seven different operational models of Indigenous social enterprises was developed based on differing levels of Indigenous ownership, control, and management: (1) individual, (2) collective, (3) delegative, (4) developmental, (5) supportive, (6) prescriptive and (7) paternalistic. Models with 100% Indigenous ownership and control were more likely to contribute to improved health and wellbeing by increasing self-determination and strengthening culture and promoting healing than others. Indigenous social enterprises could offer a more holistic and sustainable approach to health equity and health promotion than the siloed, programmatic model common in public health policy.

This paper explores whether nonprofits are increasingly adopting mixed revenue strategies, and the sustainability of these strategies over time. We constructed a panel using NCCS data from 1998 and 2007, and divided nonprofits into three groups: Commercial, Donative, and Mixed Revenue. We found no evidence that nonprofits are increasingly adopting mixed revenue strategies. Mixed revenue strategies appeared less sustainable over time than predominately commercial or predominately donative strategies. Our results suggest that for most nonprofits, relying predominately on either commercial or donative revenue (DR) is a more stable equilibrium than attempting to achieve a balanced revenue mix. Exceptions may be those nonprofits, such as arts organizations, where there is a natural alliance between donors and customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gabriela Montserrat (pseudonym) is a Mexican–American child classified by her school district as an ‘emerging bilingual’ and is the focus of this qualitative case study that took place at a public elementary school located in a suburban community in the southwestern US in Mrs Pérez's (pseudonym) second-grade classroom. The student's use of personal stories to make connections between the literature she reads and her life is framed primarily by Cultural Hybridity Theory and Third Space Theory in Language And Literacy. Within this conceptualization, we began with broad research questions: (1) What is the role of Gabriela, an emerging bilingual second-grade student, in the hybrid or ‘third space’ that Mrs Pérez, her teacher, has created for her literature classroom? and (2) How does Gabriela's background influence her interpretation of text(s)? To answer these questions, we employed both a qualitative case study research paradigm and a feminist research paradigm to explore the processes and dynamics of Gabriela's use of narratives in her personal experience as a way for her to make connections and meaning from texts. Artifacts collected for data analysis and triangulation included audio-tapes, field notes, student journal entries, and semi-structured interviews. Constant comparative analysis and discourse analysis were used to analyze the data and to create an individual profile that serves to provide a background and context for understanding the students' chosen participation style during seven literature discussions. Within the analysis, several patterns and themes emerged including: (1) Connections to the Text; (2) Connections to Something Someone Said; (3) Responses to a Question; and (4) A Story She Needed to Tell. The article concludes with suggestions and recommendations for broadening the curricular and pedagogical practices for teachers of emerging bilingual learners. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The linguistic dimensions of globalized hip-hop cannot be understood simply as a byproduct of English as an American export. As hip-hop mobilizes, it is common (and arguably necessary) for global hip-hop communities to struggle through purposeful, semiotically rooted dialectics over what constitutes “authentic” and respectable forms of local hip-hop identity (Pennycook, 2007; Omoniyi, 2009). In many ways, hip-hop in China is in the midst of that very struggle. During the past decade, relaxed economic regulations (Fang, 2006) and cultural allure have attracted several foreigners to China, many of whom have taken an active role alongside local enthusiasts in formulating a sense of Chinese hip-hop identity. This study uses Agha's emblematic figures of identity (2007) as a framework for bringing forth the following research question: How are intercultural processes of identity formation between local and foreign artists mediated by language in the Chinese hip-hop community? Data were gathered through interviews and lyric analysis, as well as recording-studio and live performance observations. Contrary to folk and academic criticisms claiming that foreign presence leads to mimicry or cultural “pollution” (De Kloet, 2005), the findings suggest that in many cases global hip-hop resources are interculturally recruited and (re)analyzed according to their ability to promote practices rooted in local significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we build on the extant literature on housing social enterprises and hybrid models of public housing delivery. We trace the evolution of US housing policy toward greater hybridity, focusing on three dimensions of hybridity. Drawing from a case study of the Charlotte Housing Authority in North Carolina, we showcase two housing programs, HOPE VI and Moving to Work, in order to highlight current innovations in the provision of housing for low-income populations and the entrenched hybridity that is evident. Using this information, we address two main questions: (1) how do local public housing agencies collaborate with the Federal government, private developers, and non-profit service providers to fund, construct, and manage affordable rental housing? and (2) what are the benefits and challenges of hybrid models of affordable rental housing delivery within the US context? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global television landscape in the first decade of the 21st century is a complex terrain of contradictory developments and trends. Since the early years of television the United States has been the most important exporter of TV series, TV serials and game shows. But nowadays times have changed. Admittedly the USA is still the leading nation in selling TV fiction all over the world, but since the deregulation of the TV market in Western Europe in the 1990s Great Britain and the Netherlands are the leading exporters of non-fiction formats like reality shows, Australia sells its soap operas all over the world and Latin American countries are important exporters of telenovelas. At the beginning of the 21st century the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea made its way around the world. Several countries bought the rights to produce a local adaptation of the format. For example ABC produced Ugly Betty in the United States, the German channel Sat.1 produced Verliebt in Berlin, and there is a Russian adaptation Ne Rodis’ Krasivoy. This article compares several local adaptations of the telenovela: the Colombian original and the adaptations in Germany, Russia, Spain and the USA. It looks at the dramaturgical and narrative proximities and differences of the adaptations and focuses on the textual conditions of international success. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Most case studies of the cultural formulation have focused on encounters with a single clinician. This article examines the assessment of a patient across different settings in which multiple clinicians developed separate understandings of the patient’s identity. The formal cultural formulation prepared by the last clinician to work with the patient revealed a vastly different picture than what was previously recognized, reflecting both the impact of the identity of the clinician and the systematic evaluation process on the nature of the patient’s responses. This suggests that cultural hybridity can stimulate new modes of inquiry as people integrate disparate cultural references to fashion a new identity. Intersubjectivity can also alter information elicited by clinicians. The conclusion highlights the need for practice guidelines for use of the cultural formulation across treatment settings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article attends to the representation of contemporary Latin American migrant experiences in the U.S. in El Corrido de Dante by Eduardo González Viaña. It focuses on voice and identity in relation to migration, space, place, home and belonging. Paraphrasing Spivak’s question “Can the subaltern speak?” from her homonymous essay, I discuss if the undocumented migrant subject has a voice of his/her own. I claim that the text can help us understand the experiences of undocumented Latin American migrants and the identitarian “in-betweenness” of the new generations born on the other side of the border. Furthermore, I argue that it is a polyphonic novel populated by “new” and “traditional” Latino/as, whose heterogeneous voices are enunciated from liminal or marginal positions. I find that González Viaña conveys a rich portrayal of the idiosyncratic reality of the Latin Americans in the U.S. with an original intertextual play that situates the text in the literary borderlands between classical Western works and Latin American and Latino/a popular and mass culture. However, the voice of the undocumented migrant is mediated by the complex multi-layered narrative structure, which makes the “truth” behind the story dissipate into hearsays, myths and legends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though the drive to limit US citizenship often takes shape through the symbolic and material exclusion of 'aliens,' immigrants also engage in rhetorical struggles over the limits of the US civic imaginary. This essay examines one such challenge to the bordering logics of US citizenship-La Gran Marcha, one of the largest immigration protests of 2006. Rather than see the protest as wholly 'alien,' as it was conceived of by anti-immigrant forces, or as purely 'American,' as an attempt for mere recognition, La Gran Marcha can best be understood as performing a hybrid US citizenship. This hybrid rhetoric problematizes contemporary understandings of citizenship and elucidates immigrants' agency within US democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Drawing upon postcolonial theorizing on diasporic positionalities and Homi Bhabha's theorization on 'third space' and hybridity, this study shows how young American Muslim women engage in their own interpretations of Islam based on their individual needs and situations. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 26 respondents in Ohio and Texas in order to gain insights into the identities of American Muslim women with immigrant backgrounds. Respondents emphasized their own 'research' on Islam as an important foundation of their faith. The narratives of the American Muslim women showed that they subverted and transgressed dominant meanings, while negotiating new ones through their everyday lived experiences. However, without indulging in an uncritical celebration of interstitial spaces, this study also strives to highlight the power relations implicit in the performances of complex, hybrid identities in the post-9/11 American context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is part of a larger project that intends both to bridge some of the existing gaps in the fields of postcolonial studies and geography, and to explore potential avenues for interdisciplinary research. It will do so through the study of selected writings of five contemporary Caribbean authors living in the USA. At the core of my project is an analysis of how these novels map the Caribbean 'otherwise', both through the language and the imaginaries they produce and through their function as cultural products circulating and being consumed in transnational cultural markets. The literary geography produced by these novels is timely, as it attempts to reveal the impact in the Caribbean region of three important concepts that have increasingly been debated in Humanities scholarship in recent decades: 'hybridity', 'diaspora' and 'authenticity'. The paper will investigate how these concepts fail to recognise and address the complexities of its space and will explore the ways in which this literature challenges the imaginaries around the above concepts by mapping of the Caribbean as 'lived-imagined' space. Such mapping, I contend, demonstrates the urgent need for academic research - especially in geography and postcolonial theory - to honour the contribution of literary imagination in envisioning links between how a place is imagined, represented and lived, in suggesting new ways of looking at and across places that count as historically 'marginal' and geographically 'invisible', and thus producing knowledge and culture 'otherwise'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history book "Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprize Beyond the Rocky Mountains," by Washington Irving. Of particular interest is what the book, which is a history of the Pacific Fur Company, owned by businessman John Jacob Astor, says about imperialism in the U.S. in the 1830s. Irving's use of the picturesque to describe the western frontier of the U.S. is considered. It is argued that the book contains two perspectives on imperialism, one being the history of the fur company, and the other is a form of imperialism that is based on the model of the nation-state. Other topics include Manifest Destiny, symbolism in the book, and hybridity, such as the dichotomy between civilization and savagery.

"Checking the Box: A Journey Through My Hybrid Identity" is a performance piece, examining the social construction of ethnic identity and the sociopolitical processes that are brought to bear on self-definition and group identification. Deploying autoethnography, this multivocal text explores the historical conditions and political and economic exigencies that have shaped my experience of hybridity-as a multiethnic individual, negotiating my identity in contemporary U.S. society. I map my journey, through competing discourses, histories, and media-generated memories, arriving back at the beginning. Ultimately, the piece seeks to highlight the strategic logic employed by those caught "between" dominant representations and capture the experience of navigating that terrain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a paper that intends to explore the transition and migration of urban popular or pop music in the U.S. society. It mirrors the movement and conceptualization that interlink in furthering the hybridization of such music. It cites several analyses which are presented by writers or researchers such as Shannon Dudley, George O. Carmey, and Stephen Greenblatt. The author relates that migration of people contributes the dissemination of pop music genre as cultural mobility directly affects societal change. Whereas the author, amidst all assumptions, still wants to clarify the motion of the musical genres for the lucidity of the origin of urban popular music. He projects that ethnic and aesthetic aspects should be foreseen as the investigation continues.

This article views the American black play as a new genre of English with its own material, aesthetic and ideological characteristics, and traces its discursive development into a hybrid construct. Exploring the course of its development from the 1960s to the present, it focuses upon canonical plays by the most significant African-American playwrights whose common goal has been to emphasize the sociopolitical necessity for re-identification or transformation of African-American identity and so challenge the politics of homogenization that determined the monocultural character of American theatrical discourse for many decades. Their plays use subversive strategies resulting from the hybridization of language, of narrative forms and aesthetic styles. In the conclusion, attention is drawn to the success of the black play in destabilizing the linguistic and narrative networks of the past and establishing a new subversive theatrical language of substantial political significance for the theatre within and beyond the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is driven by two interrelated questions. First, is the Internet enabling organizational change among traditional interest groups and political parties, such that they are starting to resemble the looser network forms characteristic of social movements? Second, what role is the Internet playing in new, conceptually intriguing citizen organizations such as MoveOn, the U.S.-based but internationally oriented entity? I develop the concept of repertoires to argue that the Internet encourages "organizational hybridity." This captures two trends. First, established interest groups and parties are experiencing processes of hybridization based on the selective transplantation and adaptation of digital network repertoires previously considered typical of social movements. Second, new organizational forms are emerging that exist only in hybrid form and that could not function in the ways that they do without the Internet and the complex spatial and temporal interactions it facilitates. These "hybrid mobilization movements" (including MoveOn, the example considered here) blend repertoires typically associated with all three organizational types - parties, interest groups, and social movements. Moreover, I suggest that fast "repertoire switches," spatially - between online and offline realms, and temporally - within and between campaigns, are emerging characteristics of contemporary political mobilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines a number of texts which position the historical body of the indigene as a means of centering concerns about contemporary Australian identity. The most telling artifact of the colonizing process is the indigenous body as exhibit and commodity, a production still operative and at its logical extreme in the infamous Human Genome Project currently sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Health. The author examines the positioning of the indigenous body within two related discourses termed as multiculturalism and hybridity.

In recent times there has been a proliferation of scholarship exploring 'mixedness' and mixed-race people. This is evidenced by the emergence of Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) as a distinct field of academic inquiry. However, despite the growth of CMRS, there remains a scarcity of scholarship that considers mixed-race experiences from a disaggregated, intersectional perspective. Where CMRS has been attentive to the intersection of gender, the focus has largely been on women and femininity. By way of a response, in this article I draw upon data from semi-structured interviews with Black mixed-race men in the UK and the US in order to explore how Black mixed-race men negotiate their raced and gendered identities, particularly in the context of schooling. Drawing upon George Yancy's (2017) theorizations of the Black monster, I argue that a sense of double consciousness (and even multiple consciousness) means Black mixed-race men are acutely aware of how the white gaze threatens to fragment and erase them. Yet rather than being passive victims of racism, I show that, through hybridity, the imposition of the Black monster stereotype is something that Black mixed-race men are able to resist, modify and manipulate for their own ends., (© London School of Economics and Political Science 2019.)