Identities

Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality

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Edited by Linda Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published January 2003, 464 pages, paper

ISBN 0631217231

Key essays in the long tradition of philosophical debate surrounding identity categories have been brought together in one volume.

 This anthology comprises the essays that have shaped discussions of identity across disciplines, including selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, DuBois, Beauvoir, Lukacs, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbaum, Wittig, Butler, Halperin, R. Robertson, Said, and LaClau. It focuses both on general analyses of the genesis, contours, and political effects of social identities and specific analyses of particular identity categories - such as race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality. This breadth and depth of analysis provides a comparative study of identities through multiple theoretical frameworks, making this a perfect classroom text and resource for theorists.

Contents

 Introduction: "Identities: Modern and Postmodern" Linda Martin Alcoff. Part I: Foundations: 1. "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness": G.W.F. Hegel. 2. "On the Jewish Question": Karl Marx. 3. Selections from The Ego and the Id: Sigmund Freud. 4. "The Self": George Herbert Mead. Part II: Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace: 5. "The Conservation of Races": W.E.B. Du Bois. 6. "The New Negro": Alain Locke. 7. "Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle": Amilcar Cabral. 8. "The Fact of Blackness": Frantz Fanon. 9. "Whiteness as Property": Cheryl Harris. 10. "New Ethnicities": Stuart Hall. 11. "The Latino Imaginary": Juan Flores. Part III: Class and Identity: 12. "Class Consciousness": Georg Lukacs. 13. "Class Consciousness in History": E. J. Hobsbawm. 14. " Preface" from The Making of the English Working Class: E.P. Thompson. 15. " Introduction" from Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency: Ranajit Guha. Part IV: Gender/Sexuality: 16. "Introduction" from The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir. 17. "One is not Born a Woman": Monique Wittig. 18. "Throwing Like a Girl": Iris Young. 19. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and the Violence Against Women of Color": Kimberl (Blackwell's import stopped here. We'll get the rest of this as soon as we can!)