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Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lexington Books<\/a>
\nMay 2012
\n142 pages
\nSize: 6 x 9
\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-7190-5
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-9057-9
\neBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-7191-2<\/p>\n

Andrew J. Pierce<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer
\nDepartment of Philosophy
\nSacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n

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Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription<\/em> 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 \u201cnon-ideal theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n