LEADER 03984nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910345142703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08728-2 010 $a9786612087288 010 $a1-4008-2552-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825523 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773391 035 $a(EBL)445496 035 $a(OCoLC)437140462 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000338887 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224025 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000338887 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10297905 035 $a(PQKB)11778967 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36217 035 $a(DE-B1597)446318 035 $a(OCoLC)979970142 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825523 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445496 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284199 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208728 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445496 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773391 100 $a20020715d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIdentity in democracy /$fAmy Gutmann 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (258 pages) 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 311 0 $a0-691-09652-X 311 0 $a0-691-12040-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Identity Politics --$tChapter One. The Claims of Cultural Identity Groups --$tChapter Two. The Value of Voluntary Groups --$tChapter Three. Identification by Ascription --$tChapter Four. Is Religious Identity Special? --$tConclusion. Integrating Identity in Democracy --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWritten by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of timeless urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to contemporary debates: Do some identity groups undermine the greater democratic good and thus their own legitimacy in a democratic society? Even if so, how is a democracy to fairly distinguish between groups such as the KKK on the one hand and the NAACP on the other? Should democracies exempt members of some minorities from certain legitimate or widely accepted rules, such as Canada's allowing Sikh members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to wear turbans instead of Stetsons? Do voluntary groups like the Boy Scouts have a right to discriminate on grounds of sexual preference, gender, or race? Identity-group politics, Gutmann shows, is not aberrant but inescapable in democracies because identity groups represent who people are, not only what they want--and who people are shapes what they demand from democratic politics. Rather than trying to abolish identity politics, Gutmann calls upon us to distinguish between those demands of identity groups that aid and those that impede justice. Her book does justice to identity groups, while recognizing that they cannot be counted upon to do likewise to others. Clear, engaging, and forcefully argued, Amy Gutmann's Identity in Democracy provides the fractious world of multicultural and identity-group scholarship with a unifying work that will sustain it for years to come. 606 $aPressure groups 606 $aGroup identity 606 $aDemocracy 615 0$aPressure groups. 615 0$aGroup identity. 615 0$aDemocracy. 676 $a780.92 700 $aGutmann$b Amy$0129214 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345142703321 996 $aIdentity in democracy$92450386 997 $aUNINA