{"product_id":"identities-isbn-9780631217237","title":"Identities","description":"This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysis and debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects of identity categories.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines general and specific analyses of particular identity categories: race\/ethnicity, gender\/sexuality, class, nationality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAllows for a comparative study of identities through multiple theoretical frameworks.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Notes on Authors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern Linda Martín Alcoff.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Foundations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: G.W.F. Hegel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. On the Jewish Question: Karl Marx.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Consciousness and What is Unconscious: Sigmund Freud.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Self: George Herbert Mead.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Race\/Ethnicity\/Ethnorace.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Conservation of Races: W.E.B. Du Bois.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The New Negro: Alain Locke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle: Amilcar Cabral.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Whiteness as Property: Cheryl I. Harris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. New Ethnicities: Stuart Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity: Juan Flores.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Class and Identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Class Consciousness: Georg Lukács.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Class Consciousness in History: E. J. Hobsbawm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Preface from \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the English Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e: E.P. Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Introduction from \u003ci\u003eElementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India\u003c\/i\u003e: Ranajit Guha.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Gender\/Sexuality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Introduction from \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e: Simone de Beauvoir.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. One Is Not Born a Woman: Monique Wittig.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality: Iris Marion Young.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color: Kimberlé Crenshaw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory and Psychoanalytic Discourse: Judith Butler.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Revolutions, Universals and Sexual Categories: John Boswell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens: David M. Halperin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation: Teresa de Lauretis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Transsexual Discourses and Languages of Identification: Jason Cromwell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: National\/Transnational Identities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. National Identity and Citizenship: Ross Poole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. On the Making of Transnational Identities in the Age of Globalization: The US Latina\/o – ‘Latin” American Case: Daniel Mato.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Globalization as a Problem: Roland Robertson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity: R. Rhadakrishnan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Reconfigurations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. The Clash of Definitions: Edward W. Said.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism: Renato Rosaldo.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity: Mike Featherstone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity: Ernesto Laclau.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s: Donna Haraway.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity: Satya P. Mohanty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: Identities: Postcolonial and Global: Eduardo Mendieta.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This smart collection of important essays reminds us how profoundly identity questions infuse the politics of the everyday. An eminently useful reader!\" \u003ci\u003eJohn Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University, author of New York Before Chinatown: The Shaping of American Orientalism, 1776–1882\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A landmark reader in the borderlands of our ‘post’ and ‘trans’ existences. \u003ci\u003eIdentities\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the historical centrality of identity to Western philosophy and explores the philosophical dimensions of our contemporary struggle with identity, politics, and culture. Alcoff and Mendieta's selections provide a profound critique as well as a generative overview for anyone interested in difference, power, and construction of the individual and social self.\" \u003ci\u003eJohnnella Butler, University of Washington, editor of Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eLinda Martín Alcoff\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eFeminist Epistemologies\u003c\/i\u003e (edited, with Elizabeth Potter, 1993), \u003ci\u003eReal Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eEpistemology: The Big Questions\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1998), and \u003ci\u003eThinking From the Underside of History\u003c\/i\u003e (edited, with Eduardo Mendieta, 2000). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Mendieta\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is editor and translator of Enrique Dussel's \u003ci\u003eThe Underside of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLiberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel’s Semiotics and Discourse Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e  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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdentities\u003c\/i\u003e comprises the essays that have shaped discussions of identity across disciplines, including selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, Du Bois, de Beauvoir, Lukács, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989399224549,"sku":"NP9780631217237","price":71.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631217237.jpg?v=1761783959","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/identities-isbn-9780631217237","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}