Collective identity, oppression, and the right to self-ascription / Andrew J. Pierce
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012وصف:vii, 132 sنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780739171905
- 0739171909
- HM753 .P528 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HM753 .P528 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | المتاح | 30010011136926 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HM753 .P528 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011136520 |
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction Chapter 1: Minority Cultures and Oppressed Groups: Competing Explanatory Frameworks Chapter 2: Collective Identity, Group Rights, and the Liberal Tradition of Law Chapter 3: Identity Politics Within the Limits of Deliberative Democracy Chapter 4: The Future of Racial Identity: A Test Case
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."