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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      17 July 2009
      20 November 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511551956
      9780521862134
      9780521680486
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551956
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 202 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 202 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Area Studies, American Studies, Sociology: General Interest, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Area Studies, American Studies, Sociology: General Interest, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's engaging book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This insightful study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history.

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    "...an original framing of the rise of identity politics. Recommended." - Choice

    "Identity Before Identity Politics is a richly detailed and complex text that engages both intellectual and social history, and provides a precise account of how structural and demographic change intersected with evolving ideologies." - Women's Review of Books

    "Linda Nicholson’s Identity before Identity Politics provides an importanthistorical perspective on the current debates over identity politics."
    Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Linda Alcoff, City University of New York

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