Identities : race, class, gender, and nationality / edited by Linda Martín Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alcoff, Linda Martín.

Mendieta, Eduardo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Ethnicity.

Race awareness.

Gender identity.

National characteristics.

Physical Description:

xv, 428 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern / Linda Martin Alcoff 1

Part I Foundations 9

1 Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness / G. W. F. Hegel 11

2 On the Jewish Question / Karl Marx 17

3 Consciousness and What is Unconscious / Sigmund Freud 29

4 The Self / George Herbert Mead 32

Part II Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace 41

5 The Conservation of Races / W. E. B. Du Bois 43

6 The New Negro / Alain Locke 49

7 Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle / Amilcar Cabral 55

8 The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon 62

9 Whiteness as Property / Cheryl I. Harris 75

10 New Ethnicities / Stuart Hall 90

11 The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity / Juan Flores 96

Part III Class and Identity 105

12 Class Consciousness / Georg Lukacs 107

13 Class Consciousness in History / E. J. Hobsbawm 126

14 Preface from The Making of the English Working Class / E. P. Thompson 136

15 Introduction from Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India / Ranajit Guha 139

Part IV Gender/Sexuality 147

16 Introduction from The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir 149

17 One Is Not Born a Woman / Monique Wittig 158

18 Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality / Iris Marion Young 163

19 Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color / Kimberle Crenshaw 175

20 Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse / Judith Butler 201

21 Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories / John Boswell 212

22 Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens / David M. Halperin 227

23 Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation / Teresa de Lauretis 244

24 Transsexual Discourses and Languages of Identification / Jason Cromwell 259

Part V National/Transnational Identities 269

25 National Identity and Citizenship / Ross Poole 271

26 On the Making of Transnational Identities in the Age of Globalization: The US Latina/o-"Latin" American Case / Daniel Mato 281

27 Globalization as a Problem / Roland Robertson 295

28 Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity / R. Radhakrishnan 312

Part VI Reconfigurations 331

29 The Clash of Definitions / Edward W. Said 333

30 Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism / Renato Rosaldo 336

31 Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity / Mike Featherstone 342

32 Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity / Ernesto Laclau 360

33 A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s / Donna Haraway 369

34 The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity / Satya P. Mohanty 392

Afterword: Identities: Postcolonial and Global / Eduardo Mendieta 407.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0631217223

0631217231

OCLC:

49795672