Identities

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, Lukacs, 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.

ISBN 0631217231   Pages 448 ISBN13 9780631217237 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 920 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 05 Dec 2002   Width (mm) 173 Library of Congress HM753.I33   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY 305.01   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC21

		Notes on Authors
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern by Linda Martin Alcoff		1
Pt. I		Foundations		9
1		Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness by G. W. F. Hegel		11
2		On the Jewish Question by Karl Marx		17
3		Consciousness and What is Unconscious by Sigmund Freud		29
4		The Self by George Herbert Mead		32
Pt. II		Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace		41
5		The Conservation of Races by W. E. B. Du Bois		43
6		The New Negro by Alain Locke		49
7		Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle by Amilcar Cabral		55
8		The Fact of Blackness by Frantz Fanon		62
9		Whiteness as Property by Cheryl I. Harris		75
10		New Ethnicities by Stuart Hall		90
11		The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity by Juan Flores		96
Pt. III		Class and Identity		105
12		Class Consciousness by Georg Lukacs		107
13		Class Consciousness in History by E. J. Hobsbawm		126
14		Preface from The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson		136
15		Introduction from Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India by Ranajit Guha		139
Pt. IV		Gender/Sexuality		147
16		Introduction from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir		149
17		One Is Not Born a Woman by Monique Wittig		158
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"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 Mendietaa 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

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