{"product_id":"identity-complex-michael-hames-garca-9780816649860","title":"Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn seemingly exhaustive arguments about identity as a category of analysis, we have made a critical error--one that Michael Hames-Garc? sets out to correct in this revisionary look at the making and meaning of social identities. We have asked how separate identities--of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality--come to intersect. Instead, Hames-Garc? proposes, we should begin by understanding such social identities as mutually constituting one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in both theoretical and political practices--in the lived realities of people's experience--\u003ci\u003eIdentity Complex\u003c\/i\u003e reinvigorates identity as a key concept and as a tool for the pursuit of social justice. Hames-Garc? draws on a wide range of examples to show that social identities are central to how exploitation works, such as debates about the desirability of sexual minority identities in postcolonial contexts, questions about the reality of race, and the nature of the U.S. prison crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnless we understand precisely how identities take shape in relation to each other and within contexts of oppression, he contends, we will never be able to eradicate discrimination and social inequality. By analyzing the social interdependence of identities, Hames-Garc? seeks to enable the creation of deep connections of solidarity across differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Hames-Garc?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816649863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816649860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011 pg. 94","brand":"Michael Hames-Garc?","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926485598463,"sku":"9780816649860","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_83092dcf-9f48-4c3e-ace6-57f208e5ea84.jpg?v=1681083335","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/identity-complex-michael-hames-garca-9780816649860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}