Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 354 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0585395691
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0520223489
,
0520223497
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0520924940
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1597348538
,
9780585395692
,
9780520924949
,
9781597348539
Content:
This collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity
Content:
The epistemic status of cultural identity: on Beloved and the postcolonial condition / Satya P. Mohanty -- Postmodernism, "realism," and the politics of identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana feminism / Paula M.L. Moya -- "Who are our own people?": challenges for a theory of social identity / Michael R. Hames-García -- On representing others: intellectuals, pedagogy, and the uses of error / Caroline S. Hau -- "It matters to get the facts straight": Joy Kogawa, realism, and objectivity of values / Minh T. Nguyen -- Racial authenticity and white separatism: the future of racial program housing on college campuses / Amie A. Macdonald -- Who says who says?: the epistemological grounds for agency in liberatory political projects / Brent R. Henze -- Is there something you need to tell me?: coming out and the ambiguity of experience / William S. Wilkerson -- Reading "experience": the debate in intellectual history among Scott, Toews, and LaCapra / John H. Zammito -- Who's afraid of identity politics? / Linda Martín Alcoff
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520223489
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reclaiming identity Berkeley, Calif : University of California Press, ©2000
Language:
English
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