Identity Politics Reconsidered

Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice. This collection of powerful essays by both well-known and emerging scholars offers original answers to questions concerning the analytical legitimacy of 'identity' and 'experience', and the relationships among cultural autonomy, moral universalism and progressive politics.

Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice. This collection of powerful essays by both well-known and emerging scholars offers original answers to questions concerning the analytical legitimacy of 'identity' and 'experience', and the relationships among cultural autonomy, moral universalism and progressive politics.

Introduction; L.M.Alcoff & S.P.Mohanty Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics; T.Siebers On a Critical Realist Theory of Identity; R.Sanchez Reclaiming Left Baggage: Some Early Sources for Minority Studies; J.Flores Identity as Calling: Martin Luther King on War; P.Sawyer What Is at Stake in 'Gay' Identities?; M.Hames-Garcia What's Identity Got to Do With It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom; P.M.L.Moya Identity Politics: An Ethnography by a Participant; R.Rosaldo Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity and Difference Before and After September 11; D.Palumbo-Liu Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary; R.Saldívar Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: The Coloniality of Power from Gloria Anzaldúa to Arundhati Roy; J.D.Saldívar Realism and African American Literary Paradigms; J.E.Butler On Forming Dialogic-Analytic Collaborations: Curating Spaces within/between Universities and Communities; J.K.W.Tchen Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Sexual Identity: Recasting the Essentialism and Social Constructionism Debate; R.Halwani Experience, Identity, Objectivity; D.LaCapra Transformation vs. Resistance Identity Projects: Epistemological Resources for Social Justice Movements; S.Harding Internationalism and the American Indian Scholar: Native Studies and the Challenge of Pan-Indigenism; S.Teuton