Social media platforms have become important spaces where people narrate the self, negotiate belonging, and make sense of lived experience. In contemporary ...

Students conduct original research on a topic related to writing, discourse, and identity, beginning with exploratory questions and culminating in a 1700-word research paper. The project includes wide ...

The popular understanding of identity has taken on social and political meanings that obscure its psychological and cognitive functions. Identity helps organize conscious thoughts, feelings, and ...

The recent verbal exchange between Kemi Badenoch, the Nigerian-born leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, and Kashim Shettima, Nigeria’s Vice President, has seemingly thrust into the ...

“Theoretical frameworks in linguistic anthropology theorize religious-ethnic identity as a relational and sociocultural phenomenon that emerges in local contexts of interaction” (Bucholtz and Hall, ...

In this conversation recorded for Washington Post Live on Feb. 23, Oscar-nominated actor Jeffrey Wright discusses his latest film, "American Fiction," how the movie further explores themes of race and ...