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Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription
Andrew J. Pierce
出版
Lexington Books
, 2012-05-31
主題
Philosophy / Social
Social Science / Demography
Social Science / Minority Studies
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Philosophy / Political
ISBN
0739171917
9780739171912
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=u76sJQnC0c4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.”