Identities

Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality

Linda Martín Alcoff editor Eduardo Mendieta editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:5th Dec '02

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Identities cover

This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality.


  • Explores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysis and debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects of identity categories.
  • Provides 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.
  • Combines general and specific analyses of particular identity categories: race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, nationality.
  • Allows for a comparative study of identities through multiple theoretical frameworks.

"This smart collection of important essays reminds us how profoundly identity questions infuse the politics of the everyday. An eminently useful reader!" John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University, author of New York Before Chinatown: The Shaping of American Orientalism, 1776–1882

"A landmark reader in the borderlands of our ‘post’ and ‘trans’ existences. Identities 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." Johnnella Butler, University of Washington, editor of Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies

ISBN: 9780631217237

Dimensions: 247mm x 173mm x 33mm

Weight: 821g

448 pages