Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality

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 Flores.

Part III: Class and Identity.

12. Class Consciousness: Georg Lukács.

13. Class Consciousness in History: E. J. Hobsbawm.

14. Preface from The Making of the English Working Class: E.P. Thompson.

15. Introduction from Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India: Ranajit Guha.

Part IV: Gender/Sexuality.

16. Introduction from The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir.

17. One Is Not Born a Woman: Monique Wittig.

18. Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality: Iris Marion Young.

19. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color: Kimberlé Crenshaw.

20. Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory and Psychoanalytic Discourse: Judith Butler.

21. Revolutions, Universals and Sexual Categories: John Boswell.

22. Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens: David M. Halperin.

23. Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation: Teresa de Lauretis.

24. Transsexual Discourses and Languages of Identification: Jason Cromwell.

Part V: National/Transnational Identities.

25. National Identity and Citizenship: Ross Poole.

26. On the Making of Transnational Identities in the Age of Globalization: The US Latina/o – ‘Latin” American Case: Daniel Mato.

27. Globalization as a Problem: Roland Robertson.

28. Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity: R. Rhadakrishnan.

Part VI: Reconfigurations.

29. The Clash of Definitions: Edward W. Said.

30. Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism: Renato Rosaldo.

31. Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity: Mike Featherstone.

32. Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity: Ernesto Laclau.

33. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s: Donna Haraway.

34. The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity: Satya P. Mohanty.

Afterword: Identities: Postcolonial and Global: Eduardo Mendieta.

Subject Index.

Name Index.