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Autore: | Hames-Garcia Michael Roy |
Titolo: | Identity complex [[electronic resource] ] : making the case for multiplicity / / Michael Hames-Garcia |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305 |
Soggetto topico: | Group identity |
Identity (Philosophical concept) | |
Race awareness | |
Gender identity | |
Prisons - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Identity complex |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4601-9 |
0-8166-7831-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461417603321 |
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