Visible Identities Race, Gender, and the Self

Name: Visible Identities Race, Gender, and the Self
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ISBN: 9780195137354

ISBN-10: 0195137353

ISBN-13: 9780195137354

Edition: 2005 (Annotated)

Authors: Linda Martï¿½n Alcoff

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In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martn Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, orreductive approaches to judging others. Identities are historical formations and their political implications are open to interpretation. But identities such as race and gender also have a powerful visual and material aspect that…

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List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English




Identities Real and Imagined


Introduction: Identity and Visibility



The Pathologizing of Identity



The Political Critique



The Philosophical Critique



Real Identities



Gender Identity and Gender Differences



The Identity Crisis in Feminism



The Metaphysics of Gender and Sexual Difference



Racialized Identities and Racial Subjects



A Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment



Race and Visibility



The Whiteness Question



Latino/a Particularity



Latinos and the Categories of Race



Latinos, Asian-Americans and the Black/White Paradigm



On Being Mixed


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index