Mixed race identity development

  • Language and Identity: Discursive Identity Construction.

    Shaitan Alexandra, PhD. The concept of identity has long been a central focus across psychology, sociology, and linguistics, yet its definition and construction have been the subject of ongoing debate. Early understandings of identity were largely essentialist, positing identity as a stable and enduring core of personhood – an innate psychological reality that determines who…

  • Social Identity Theory: Food for thought.

    A Social Psychological Perspective: Social Identity Theory By Alexandra Shaitan, PhD. Social Identity Theory (SIT) in conjunction with self-categorisation theory was first developed by social psychologists Tajfel and Turner (Tajfel, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) in the late twentieth century, and has since positioned itself as a rather dominant and influential model for analysing linguistic…

  • Roumeika As the SYmbol of Greek Identity.

    Roumeika as the Defining Symbol of Greek Identity. Shaitan Alexandra, PhD. Temple University, Tokyo Campus Historical Overview According to Manuylov (2015), in 1763, during the reign of Catherine the Great (1762–96), Empress of Russia, the first Pontic Greek settlers of around 800 families arrived in the Caucasus Region. They worked the ore deposits on the…