nationality.Explores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysisand debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects ofidentity categories.Provides the definitive theoretical sources and contemporarydebates by leading theorists such as selections from Hegel, Marx,Freud, DuBois, Beauvoir, Lukács, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbawm,Wittig, Butler, Halperin, R. Robertson, Said, and LaClau.Combines general and specific analyses of particular identitycategories: race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class,nationality.Allows for a comparative study of identities through multipletheoretical frameworks.

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