{"product_id":"9780739171912","title":"Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription","description":"Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription 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 “non-ideal theory.”","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126973513968,"sku":"9780739171912","price":34.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780739171912_p0.jpg?v=1769916744","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780739171912","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}