Identity complex: making the case for multiplicity
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 po…
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- Full title :Identity complex : making the case for multiplicity / Michael Hames-Garcia.
Summary
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" reinvi
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780816678310, 0816678316
- oclc:ocn750228275
- LC Classification:HM753
- Dewey Decimal:305
Table of Contents
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.
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