Negotiating white Icelandic identity: Multiculturalism and colonial identity formations

Social Identities

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-25

  Loftsdottir K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Europe; Gender; Iceland; Multiculture; Post colonialism; Race

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL RELATIONS; IDEOLOGY; MULTICULTURALISM; NATIONALISM; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RACE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

ICELAND;

EID: 78751624250     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: 13630296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2011.531902     Document Type: Article

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