Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity - Couverture souple

Hames-Garcia, Michael

 
9780816649860: Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity
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ISBN 10 : 0816649863 ISBN 13 : 9780816649860
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

Synopsis

In seemingly exhaustive arguments about identity as a category of analysis, we have made a critical error-one that Michael Hames-García 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-García 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 identity as a key concept and as a tool for the pursuit of social justice. Hames-García draws on a wide range of examples to show that social identities are central to how exploitation works, such as debates about the desirability of sexual minority identities in postcolonial contexts, questions about the reality of race, and the nature of the U.S. prison crisis.

Unless we understand precisely how identities take shape in relation to each other and within contexts of oppression, he contends, we will never be able to eradicate discrimination and social inequality. By analyzing the social interdependence of identities, Hames-García seeks to enable the creation of deep connections of solidarity across differences.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Hames-García is professor of ethnic studies at the University of Oregon. His books include Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice, also published by Minnesota.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816649863
ISBN 13 
9780816649860
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0816649855 ISBN 13 :  9780816649853
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
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