Identity Politics Reconsidered

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. She is the author of Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory (1996) and the co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies (1993), Thinking From the Underside of History (2000), and Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality (2002). Her most recent book, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, is forthcoming from Oxford. Michael Hames-García is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (State University of New York). He is the author of Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice (2004) and the co-editor, with Paula M. L. Moya, of Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (2000). Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University and Director of the Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute. He is the author of Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics (1997). His research interests include critical theory, the novel, social and cultural identity, ethics and aesthetics, and "comparative Indian literature." Paula M. L. Moya is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University. She is the author of Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (2002) and the co-editor, with Michael Hames-García, of Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (2000).