@book{2012:pierce:collective,
title = {Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription},
year = {2012},
note = {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.”},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Lexington},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
author = {Pierce, Andrew J.}
}