Reclaiming identity
Subtitle: realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism
By: edited by Paula M.L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-Garcia.
Contributors: Moya, Paula M. L.; Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Group identity; Social perception; Postmodernism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The -- Epistemic status of cultural identity: on Beloved and the postcolonial condition / -- Satya P. Mohanty; title: Postmodernism, "realism," and the politics of identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana feminism -- Paula M.L. Moya; title: "Who are our own people?": challenges for a theory of social identity -- Michael R. Hames-García; title: On representing others: intellectuals, pedagogy, and the uses of error -- Caroline S. Hau; title: "It matters to get the facts straight": Joy Kogawa, realism, and objectivity of values -- Minh T. Nguyen; title: Racial authenticity and white separatism: the future of racial program housing on college campuses -- Amie A. Macdonald; title: Who says who says?: the epistemological grounds for agency in liberatory political projects -- Brent R. Henze; title: Is there something you need to tell me?: coming out and the ambiguity of experience -- William S. Wilkerson; title: Reading "experience": the debate in intellectual history among Scott, Toews, and LaCapra -- John H. Zammito; title: Who's afraid of identity politics?-- Linda Martín Alcoff.