COLLIER, MARY JANE (ed.) (2000), Constituting Cultural Difference Through Discourse, Sage Publications. The author brings together essays that address the relation between “culture” and “discourse” by examining how people with varied cultural identities draw boundaries for difference through communication. (For more information click on the provided link)

GOLDBERG, DAVID THEO (ed.) (1994), Multiculturalism: a Critical Reader, Blackwell Publishers.  This collection maps out the prevailing concerns, arguments from the identity-difference divide, power and practices under “multiculturalism” that spans across the borders of disciplines. (For more information click on the provided link)

HARVEY, DAVID (1996), Justice, Nature and the Geography of Differences, Blackwell Publishers.  To demonstrate that “difference” can be valued while seeking for social order, the author deals with the politics of social and environmental justice to set out the conceptual foundations to explicate the ways geographical differences are produced. (For more information click on the provided link)

KASULIS,THOMAS (2002), Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural Difference, University of Hawai'i Press.  This very accessible text presents us with two orientations as culture namely “intimacy” and “integrity” that have characterized over time the west and east respectively, as they are predominant ways of organizing action and patterns of thought regardless of our cultural context. (For more information click on the provided link)

LASH, SCOTT & FEATHERSTONE (eds.) (2002), Recognition and Difference : Politics, Identity, Multiculture, Sage Publications.  This insightful collection examines issues of politics and identity in the age of multiculturalism to show that social bonds and recognition of identities are in danger in an age of accelerated globalization. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1995), Jews in Today's German Culture, The Schwartz Lectures, Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.  This study focuses on Jewish writers in Germany and Austria, among which Dischereit, Seligmann, Biller, and Schindell who place at the center of their work the very question of the Jewish identity, by employing as strategy a sense powerlessness to shape and control those who claim dominant power. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1996), Smart Jews:  The Construction of the Idea of Jewish Superior Intelligence at the Other End of the Bell Curve, The Inaugural Abraham Lincoln Lectures, University of Nebraska Press.  The author brings to our attention the seemingly positive stereotyping of Jews as highly intelligent by examining the many aspects of the ways in which the Jew is marked as the other in Western culture as the product of social constructions, shaped by the various political and racial agendas. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (2003), Jewish Frontiers:  Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities, Palgrave / Macmillan.  In this series of interlinked essays the author suggests to examine Jewish history from a different starting point, not "diaspora" but "frontier" as a place where all peoples interact to define themselves and those they encounter in reality or fantasy. (For more information click on the provided link)

WEISS HANRAHAN, NANCY (2000), Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture, Praeger Publishers.  Arguing against the postmodern claim that systematic theory is unable to account for difference the author adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of cultural judgment and social change with music as the model for theory. (For more information click on the provided link)