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Author Nicholson, Linda J.

Title Identity before identity politics / Linda Nicholson
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages)
Series Cambridge cultural social studies
Cambridge cultural social studies.
Contents The politics of identity : race and sex before the twentieth century -- Freud and the rise of the psychological self -- The culture concept and social identity -- Before black power : constructing an African American identity -- Women's identity/women's politics
Summary "In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Group identity -- United States -- History
Identity politics -- United States -- History
Women -- United States -- Identity -- History
African Americans -- Race identity -- History
Women's rights -- United States -- History
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
African Americans -- Race identity
Civil rights movements
Group identity
Identity politics
Women -- Identity
Women's rights
Identität
Ethnische Identität
Frauenbewegung
Gruppenidentität
Frau
United States
USA
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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