Identities : a reader / edited by Linda Martin Alcoff & Eduardo Mendietta.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality.

Explores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysis and debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects of identity categories.
Provides the definitive theoretical sources and contemporary debates by leading theorists such as selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, DuBois, Beauvoir, Lukács, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbawm, Wittig, Butler, Halperin, R. Robertson, Said, and LaClau.
Combines general and specific analyses of particular identity categories: race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, nationality.
Allows for a comparative study of identities through multiple theoretical frameworks.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Notes on Authors (p. viii)
• Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
• Introduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern (p. 1)
• Part I Foundations (p. 9)
• 1 Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness (p. 11)
• 2 On the Jewish Question (p. 17)
• 3 Consciousness and What is Unconscious (p. 29)
• 4 The Self (p. 32)
• Part II Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace (p. 41)
• 5 The Conservation of Races (p. 43)
• 6 The New Negro (p. 49)
• 7 Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle (p. 55)
• 8 The Fact of Blackness (p. 62)
• 9 Whiteness as Property (p. 75)
• 10 New Ethnicities (p. 90)
• 11 The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity (p. 96)
• Part III Class and Identity (p. 105)
• 12 Class Consciousness (p. 107)
• 13 Class Consciousness in History (p. 126)
• 14 Preface from The Making of the English Working Class (p. 136)
• 15 Introduction from Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (p. 139)
• Part IV Gender/Sexuality (p. 147)
• 16 Introduction from The Second Sex (p. 149)
• 17 One Is Not Born a Woman (p. 158)
• 18 Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality (p. 163)
• 19 Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color (p. 175)
• 20 Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse (p. 201)
• 21 Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories (p. 212)
• 22 Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens (p. 227)
• 23 Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation (p. 244)
• 24 Transsexual Discourses and Languages of Identification (p. 259)
• Part V National/Transnational Identities (p. 269)
• 25 National Identity and Citizenship (p. 271)
• 26 On the Making of Transnational Identities in the Age of Globalization: The US Latina/o-"Latin" American Case (p. 281)
• 27 Globalization as a Problem (p. 295)
• 28 Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity (p. 312)
• Part VI Reconfigurations (p. 331)
• 29 The Clash of Definitions (p. 333)
• 30 Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism (p. 336)
• 31 Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity (p. 342)
• 32 Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity (p. 360)
• 33 A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s (p. 369)
• 34 The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity (p. 392)
• Afterword: Identities: Postcolonial and Global (p. 407)
• Subject Index (p. 417)
• Name Index (p. 424)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is editor and translator of Enrique Dussel's The Underside of Modernity , co-editor of Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas (1997), and author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics (2002).