My Name Is

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>How do you feel about your name?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Names and how we feel about them are linked to our sense of self-identity. For people with non-Western names in Western English-speaking contexts this relationship can be complicated. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)><em>My Name Is </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>explores verbatim narratives from research participants who have non-Western names examining how individuals view their relationships with their names how names impact self-identity and how names can correlate to the pressure to conform with westernized English norms.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>An extension of the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)><em>My Name Is®</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> research project and award-winning documentary this book shares valuable lived experience as well as looking at the importance of getting names right.</span></p><p></p>