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Ethnic identity as a mutable concept in New York City street murals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Strong (0000-0002-7288-6475, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 9-54 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.1998.9966745 |
| OpenAlex | W2084674724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Long‐term collaborative participant observation of street murals in New York City shows many ways in which aspects of culture are flexible and mutable. Even the concept of self‐defined ethnic identity, supposedly a bedrock notion within culture, changes greatly. Ethnic identity moves back and forth across a continuum, extremely exclusive at one end and comprehensive at the other. The degree of exclusivity or comprehensiveness depends on the mural's theme. Important factors determining this process are the global/local infrastructure, the process of perception itself, and time‐honored muralists' conventions such as representational ambiguity
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Ethnic culture · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Media studies · Mural · Painting · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Public Spaces through Art · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |