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

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• 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, Lukacs, 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.

About the Author
Linda Martin Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. Her books include Feminist Epistemologies (edited, with Elizabeth Potter, 1993), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (1996), Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998), and Thinking From the Underside of History (edited, with Eduardo Mendieta, 2000).

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).

Reviews
"This smart collection of important essays reminds us how profoundly identity questions infuse the politics of the everyday. An eminently useful reader!" John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University, author of New York Before Chinatown: The Shaping of American Orientalism, 1776-1882

"A landmark reader in the borderlands of our 'post' and 'trans' existences. Identities demonstrates the historical centrality of identity to Western philosophy and explores the philosophical dimensions of our contemporary struggle with identity, politics, and culture. Alcoff and Mendieta's selections provide a profound critique as well as a generative overview for anyone interested in difference, power, and construction of the individual and social self." Johnnella Butler, University of Washington, editor of Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies

Book Information
ISBN 9780631217237
Author Linda Martin Alcoff
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 821g
Dimensions(mm) 247mm * 173mm * 33mm