Identity Politics Reconsidered

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Reconsidering Identity Politics: An Introduction....Pages 1-9
Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics....Pages 10-30
On a Critical Realist Theory of Identity....Pages 31-52
Reclaiming Left Baggage: Some Early Sources for Minority Studies....Pages 53-68
Identity as Calling: Martin Luther King on War....Pages 69-77
What’s at Stake in “Gay” Identities?....Pages 78-95
What’s Identity Got to Do With It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom....Pages 96-117
Identity Politics: An Ethnography by a Participant....Pages 118-125
Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11....Pages 126-141
Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary....Pages 142-151
Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: The Coloniality of Power from Gloria Anzaldúa to Arundhati Roy....Pages 152-170
African American Literature and Realist Theory: Seeking the “true-true”....Pages 171-192
On Forming Dialogic-Analytic Collaborations: Curating Spaces within/between Universities and Communities....Pages 193-208
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Sexual Identity: Recasting the Essentialism and Social Constructionism Debate....Pages 209-227
Experience and Identity....Pages 228-245
Transformation vs. Resistance Identity Projects: Epistemological Resources for Social Justice Movements....Pages 246-263
Internationalism and the American Indian Scholar: Native Studies and the Challenge of Pan-Indigenism....Pages 264-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-289