Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription Paperback / softback
by Andrew J. Pierce
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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.”
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:142 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:05/12/2013
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- ISBN:9780739190579
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:142 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:05/12/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780739190579