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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461417603321

Autore

Hames-Garcia Michael Roy

Titolo

Identity complex [[electronic resource] ] : making the case for multiplicity / / Michael Hames-Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4601-9

0-8166-7831-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Group identity

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Race awareness

Gender identity

Prisons - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Who are our own people? -- How real is race? -- Are sexual identities desirable? -- Do prisons make better men? -- Conclusion: reflections on identity in the Obama era.

Sommario/riassunto

In seemingly exhaustive arguments about identity as a category of analysis, we have made a critical error--one that Michael Hames-Garcia sets out to correct in this revisionary look at the making and meaning of social identities. We have asked how separate identities--of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality--come to intersect. Instead, Hames-Garcia proposes, we should begin by understanding such social identities as mutually constituting one another. Grounded in both theoretical and political practices--in the lived realities of people's experience--""Identity Complex"" reinvigorates