Identity complex [electronic resource] : making the case for multiplicity / Michael Hames-Garcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Race awareness.

Gender identity.

Prisons--United States.

Prisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In seemingly exhaustive arguments about identity as a category of analysis, we have made a critical error--one that Michael Hames-Garcia sets out to correct in this revisionary look at the making and meaning of social identities. We have asked how separate identities--of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality--come to intersect. Instead, Hames-Garcia proposes, we should begin by understanding such social identities as mutually constituting one another. Grounded in both theoretical and political practices--in the lived realities of people's experience--""Identity Complex"" reinvigorates

Contents:

Who are our own people?

How real is race?

Are sexual identities desirable?

Do prisons make better men?

Conclusion: reflections on identity in the Obama era.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4601-9

0-8166-7831-6

OCLC:

748242158