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Visible identities : race, gender, and the self / Linda Martin Alcoff.

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Alcoff, Linda Martín, author.
Series:
Studies in feminist philosophy.
Studies in feminist philosophy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Group identity.
Ethnicity.
Race awareness.
Gender identity.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages)
Other Title:
Race, gender, and the self
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
'Visible Identities' critiques the critiques of identity and of identity politics and argues that identities are real but not necessarily a political problem. The book explores the material infrastructure of gendered identity, and the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites.
Contents:
The pathologizing of identity
The political critique
The philosophical critique
Real identities
The identity crisis in feminist theory
The metaphysics of gender and sexual difference
The phenomenology of racial embodiment
Racism and visible race
The whiteness question
Latinos and the categories of race
Latinos, Asian-Americans, and the black-white binary
On being mixed.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-318) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Alcoff, Linda. Visible identities.
ISBN:
9780195137347
1-281-19667-3
9786611196677
0-19-803141-6
1-4237-6086-7
9780199785773
OCLC:
65189638

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