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Title Reclaiming identity : realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism / edited by Paula M.L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-García
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 354 pages)
Contents The epistemic status of cultural identity: on Beloved and the postcolonial condition / Satya P. Mohanty -- Postmodernism, "realism," and the politics of identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana feminism / Paula M.L. Moya -- "Who are our own people?": challenges for a theory of social identity / Michael R. Hames-García -- On representing others: intellectuals, pedagogy, and the uses of error / Caroline S. Hau -- "It matters to get the facts straight": Joy Kogawa, realism, and objectivity of values / Minh T. Nguyen -- Racial authenticity and white separatism: the future of racial program housing on college campuses / Amie A. Macdonald -- Who says who says?: the epistemological grounds for agency in liberatory political projects / Brent R. Henze -- Is there something you need to tell me?: coming out and the ambiguity of experience / William S. Wilkerson -- Reading "experience": the debate in intellectual history among Scott, Toews, and LaCapra / John H. Zammito -- Who's afraid of identity politics? / Linda Martín Alcoff
Summary This collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Group identity.
Social perception.
Postmodernism.
Social Identification
Social Perception
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Group identity
Postmodernism
Social perception
Form Electronic book
Author Moya, Paula M. L., editor
Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy, editor
LC no. 00022788
ISBN 9780520924949
0520924940
0585395691
9780585395692
1597348538
9781597348539
9780520223493
0520223497