Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality [Paperback]

Linda Martín Alcoff (Editor), Eduardo Mendieta (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0631217231 | ISBN-13: 978-0631217237 | Publication Date: November 1, 2007 | Edition: 1

This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality.

• Explores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysis and debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects of identity categories.
  
• Provides the definitive theoretical sources and contemporary debates by leading theorists such as selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, DuBois, Beauvoir, Lukács, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbawm, Wittig, Butler, Halperin, R. Robertson, Said, and LaClau.
  
• Combines general and specific analyses of particular identity categories: race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, nationality.
  
• Allows for a comparative study of identities through multiple theoretical frameworks.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This smart collection of important essays reminds us how profoundly identity questions infuse the politics of the everyday. An eminently useful reader!" John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University, author of New York Before Chinatown: The Shaping of American Orientalism, 1776–1882

"A landmark reader in the borderlands of our ‘post’ and ‘trans’ existences. Identities demonstrates the historical centrality of identity to Western philosophy and explores the philosophical dimensions of our contemporary struggle with identity, politics, and culture. Alcoff and Mendieta's selections provide a profound critique as well as a generative overview for anyone interested in difference, power, and construction of the individual and social self." Johnnella Butler, University of Washington, editor of Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies

Book Description

This anthology marks the first time that the key essays in the long tradition of philosophical debate surrounding identity categories have been brought together in one volume. Identities comprises the essays that have shaped discussions of identity across disciplines, including selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, Du Bois, de Beauvoir, Lukacs, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbawm, Wittig, Butler, Halperin, Robertson, Said, and Laclau. It focuses both on general analyses of the genesis, contours, and political effects of social identities and also on specific analyses of particular identity categories such as race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality.The breadth and depth of analysis provide a comparative study of identities through multiple theoretical frameworks, making this a perfect classroom text and resource for theorists.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (November 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631217231
• ISBN-13: 978-0631217237
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)