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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808287303321

Autore

Barvosa Edwina

Titolo

Wealth of selves : multiple identities, mestiza consciousness, and the subject of politics / / Edwina Barvosa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-299-05407-2

1-60344-402-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ; ; no. 14

Disciplina

305.868/07301

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - Political aspects

Identity (Philosophical concept) - Political aspects

Cultural pluralism - Psychological aspects

Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Multiple identities and immigrant political loyalty: replies to the question, Who are we? -- Mestiza consciousness and intersectionality: toward an interdisciplinary framework of multiple identities -- Identity contradiction in creative and critical thought: the case of Nazi J -- The two-tiered cohesion of decentered subjectivity: a herdsman's maps and the politics of disordered contradiction -- Ambivalence and life projects: love, politics, and self-integration in Casablanca -- Selfcraft: love and politics in the self-integration of multiple identities -- Conclusions: racial akrasia, selfcraft, and the defragmentation of self and society.