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