Identity Politics Reconsidered

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Reconsidering Identity Politics: An Introduction

   • Linda Martín Alcoff, Satya P. Mohanty

   Pages 1-9

3. Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics

   • Tobin Siebers

   Pages 10-30

4. On a Critical Realist Theory of Identity

   • Rosaura Sánchez

   Pages 31-52

5. Reclaiming Left Baggage: Some Early Sources for Minority Studies

   • Juan Flores

   Pages 53-68

6. Identity as Calling: Martin Luther King on War

   • Paul Sawyer

   Pages 69-77

7. What’s at Stake in “Gay” Identities?

   • Michael Hames-García

   Pages 78-95

8. What’s Identity Got to Do With It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom

   • Paula M. L. Moya

   Pages 96-117

9. Identity Politics: An Ethnography by a Participant

   • Renato Rosaldo

   Pages 118-125

10. Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11

    • David Palumbo-Liu

    Pages 126-141

11. Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary

    • Ramón Saldívar

    Pages 142-151

12. Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: The Coloniality of Power from Gloria Anzaldúa to Arundhati Roy

    • José David Saldívar

    Pages 152-170

13. African American Literature and Realist Theory: Seeking the “true-true”

    • Johnnella E. Butler

    Pages 171-192

14. On Forming Dialogic-Analytic Collaborations: Curating Spaces within/between Universities and Communities

    • John Kuo Wei Tchen

    Pages 193-208

15. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Sexual Identity: Recasting the Essentialism and Social Constructionism Debate

    • Raja Halwani

    Pages 209-227

16. Experience and Identity

    • Dominick LaCapra

    Pages 228-245

17. Transformation vs. Resistance Identity Projects: Epistemological Resources for Social Justice Movements

    • Sandra Harding

    Pages 246-263

18. Internationalism and the American Indian Scholar: Native Studies and the Challenge of Pan-Indigenism

    • Sean Teuton

    Pages 264-284

19. Back Matter

    Pages 285-289

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Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice. This collection of powerful essays by both well-known and emerging scholars offers original answers to questions concerning the analytical legitimacy of 'identity' and 'experience', and the relationships among cultural autonomy, moral universalism and progressive politics.

• ethics
• identity
• Moral
• morality
• Nation
• national identity
• nationalism
• political theory
• politics
• realism
• social justice
• transformation
• Transnational
• women
• work

'This brilliant collection of essays by intellectual activists is a seminal contribution to the critical debate over the complex field of identity politics. If you read one book on the subject this year, make it this one and join the conversation.' Nancy Cantor, Syracuse University President and Chancellor

'A great collection to understand current critical debates on identity politics in the humanities. As a social scientist, I have learned much from this discussion, which includes essays from well known 'intellectual activists,' both theorists and practitioners of identity-based liberation movements and minority studies.' Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University

• Syracuse University, USA

  Linda Martín Alcoff

• Binghamton University, USA

  Michael Hames-García

• Cornell University, USA

  Satya P. Mohanty

• Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Stanford University, USA

  Paula M. L. Moya

SATYA P. MOHANTY is Professor of English and a member of the South Asia Programme at Cornell University, New York, USA.

LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Syracuse University, New York, USA.

MICHAEL HAMES-GARCIA is Assistant Professor of English and a member of the Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Programme at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA.

PAULA M. L. MOYA is Assistant Professor of English and a member of the Centre for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, California, USA.

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