Identity Politics Reconsidered

L. Alcoff, M. Hames-García, S. Mohanty, L. Alcoff, M. Hames-García, S. Mohanty, Kenneth A. Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, M. Hames-García, Michael Hames-García, Paula M.L. Moya

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403983398
• Print ISBN:
  9781403964458
• Subtopic: Civil Rights in Law

Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice. This collection of powerful essays by both well-known and emerging scholars offers original answers to questions concerning the analytical legitimacy of 'identity' and 'experience', and the relationships among cultural autonomy, moral universalism and progressive politics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustration
• Notes on Contributors
• Reconsidering Identity Politics: An Introduction
• 1 Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics
• 2 On a Critical Realist Theory of Identity
• 3 Reclaiming Left Baggage: Some Early Sources for Minority Studies
• 4 Identity as Calling: Martin Luther King on War
• 5 What’s at Stake in “Gay” Identities?
• 6 What’s Identity Got to do With It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom
• 7 Identity Politics: an Ethnography By A Participant
• 8 Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September
• 9 Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary
• 10 Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: The Coloniality of Power from Gloria Anzaldúa to Arundhati Roy
• 11 African American Literature and Realist Theory: Seeking the “true-true”
• 12 On Forming Dialogic-Analytic Collaborations: Curating Spaces within/between Universities and Communities
• 13 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Sexual Identity: Recasting the Essentialism and Social Constructionism Debate
• 14 Experience and Identity
• 15 Transformation vs. Resistance Identity Projects: Epistemological Resources for Social Justice Movements
• 16 Internationalism and the American Indian Scholar: Native Studies and the Challenge of Pan-Indigenism
• Index