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Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription
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2012
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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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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7190-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7191-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
132
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1 Minority Cultures and Oppressed Groups No access Pages 11 - 38
2 Collective Identity, Group Rights, and the Liberal Tradition of Law No access Pages 39 - 68
3 Identity Politics within the Limits of Deliberative Democracy No access Pages 69 - 98
4 The Future of Racial Identity No access Pages 99 - 126
