Linda Martín 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).
Mendieta, Eduardo : State University of New York
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).
Summary
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
Notes on Authors.
Introduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern Linda Martín Alcoff.
Part I: Foundations.
Part II: Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace.
Part III: Class and Identity.
Part IV: Gender/Sexuality.
Part V: National/Transnational Identities.
Part VI: Reconfigurations.
Afterword: Identities: Postcolonial and Global: Eduardo Mendieta.
Subject Index.
Name Index.
