Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription Contributor(s): Pierce, Andrew J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739171909 ISBN-13: 9780739171905 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $111.87 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Minority Studies |
Dewey: 305.8 |
LCCN: 2012010656 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 140 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation for a conception of identity politics that avoids many of its usual pitfalls. The focus throughout is on racial identity, which provides a test case for the theory. That is, it investigates what it would mean for racial identities to be self-ascribed rather than imposed, establishing the possible role racial identity might play in a just society. The book thus makes a unique contribution to both the field of critical theory, which has been woefully silent on issues of race, and to race theory, which often either presumes that a just society would be a raceless society, or focuses primarily on understanding existing racial inequalities, in the manner typical of so-called "non-ideal theory." |