@article{438573,
      recid = {438573},
      author = {Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy.},
      title = {Identity complex making the case for multiplicity /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Minnesota Press,},
      address = {Minneapolis :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 223 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {In seemingly exhaustive arguments about identity as a  category of analysis, we have made a critical error-one  that Michael Hames-García 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-García proposes, we should begin by  understanding such social identities as mutually  constituting one another.  Grounded in both theoretical and  political practices-in the lived realities of people's  experience-Identity Complex reinvigorates identity as a key  concept and as a tool for the pursuit of social justice. To  show that social identities are central to how exploitation  works, Hames-García draws on a wide range of examples, 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.   Unless 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-García seeks to  enable the creation of deep connections of solidarity  across differences.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438573},
}