Identities Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality [Paperback]

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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, 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.

Introduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern Linda Martín Alcoff.

Part I: Foundations.

1. Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: G.W.F. Hegel.

2. On the Jewish Question: Karl Marx.

3. Consciousness and What is Unconscious: Sigmund Freud.

4. The Self: George Herbert Mead.

Part II: Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace.

5. The Conservation of Races: W.E.B. Du Bois.

6. The New Negro: Alain Locke.

7. Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle: Amilcar Cabral.

8. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon.

9. Whiteness as Property: Cheryl I. Harris.

10. New Ethnicities: Stuart Hall.

11. The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity: Juan Florl+