ISBN:
9780198031413
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Serie:
Studies in Feminist Philosophy Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8/0097
Schlagwort(e):
Group identity
;
Ethnicity
;
Race awareness
;
Gender identity
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Visible Identities offers a careful analysis of the political and philosophical worries about identity and argues that these worries are neither supported by the empirical data nor grounded in realistic understandings of what identities are. Martín Alcoff develops a more realistic characterization of identity in general through combining phenomenological approaches to embodiment with hermeneutic concepts of the interpretive horizon. Besides addressing the general contours of social identity, Martín Alcoff develops an account of the material infrastructure of gendered identity, compares and contrasts gender identities with racialized ones, and explores the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites. In several chapters she looks specifically at Latino identity as well, including its relationship to concepts of race, the specific forms of anti-Latino racism, and the politics of mestizo or hybrid identity.
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Contents -- PART ONE: IDENTITIES REAL AND IMAGINED -- Introduction: Identity and Visibility -- 1. The Pathologizing of Identity -- 2. The Political Critique -- 3. The Philosophical Critique -- 4. Real Identities -- PART TWO: GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER DIFFERENCES -- 5. The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory -- 6. The Metaphysics of Gender and Sexual Difference -- PART THREE: RACIALIZED IDENTITIES AND RACIST SUBJECTS -- 7. The Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment -- 8. Racism and Visible Race -- 9. The Whiteness Question -- PART FOUR: LATINO/A PARTICULARITY -- 10. Latinos and the Categories of Race -- 11. Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Black-White Binary -- 12. On Being Mixed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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