Identities

Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality
Ed. by Linda Alcoff a. Eduardo Mendieta

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 915g
• ISBN-13: 9780631217237
• ISBN-10: 0631217231
• Artikelnr.: 13620912

Autorenporträt

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. Her books include Feminist Epistemologies (edited, with Elizabeth Potter, 1993), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (1996), Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998), and Thinking From the Underside of History (edited, with Eduardo Mendieta, 2000). Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is editor and translator of Enrique Dussel's The Underside of Modernity, co-editor of Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas (1997), and author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Authors.

Introduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern LindaMartín Alcoff.

Part I: Foundations.

Part II: Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace.

Part III: Class and Identity.

Part IV: Gender/Sexuality.

Part V: National/Transnational Identities.

Part VI: Reconfigurations.

Afterword: Identities: Postcolonial and Global: EduardoMendieta.

Subject Index.

Name Index.

Rezensionen

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

"A landmark reader in the borderlands of our 'post'and 'trans' existences. Identities demonstratesthe historical centrality of identity to Western philosophy andexplores the philosophical dimensions of our contemporary strugglewith identity, politics, and culture. Alcoff and Mendieta'sselections provide a profound critique as well as a generativeoverview for anyone interested in difference, power, andconstruction of the individual and social self." JohnnellaButler, University of Washington, editor of Color-Line toBorderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies