2. Background on the author
Education:
BA, English, Willamette University, 1993
Ph.D., English, Cornell University, 1998 Publications:
Research & Teaching Interests:
Chicana/o, U.S. Latina/o, and African American literatures and cultures; race and incarceration in the
United States; gender and sexuality; theories of identity and the self.
Publications:
- Identity Complex Making the Case for Multiciplicity , (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis
Press, 2011)
- Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, co-edited with Ernesto Martínez (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2011) (Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Anthology)
- Fugitive Though: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice, (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2004).
- Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodermism, co-edited with Paula
M. L. Moya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
- Identity Politics Reconsidered, co-edited with Linda Martín Alcoff, Satya Mohanty, and Paula M. L.
Moya (Palgrave, 2006) .
Fuente: http://ethnic.uoregon.edu
3. Introduction
• Beliefs and theories about race.
• Different scholar’s positions.
• The author argues and seeks to clarify these
positions and explains his point of view.
4. 1. “The first approach is any invocation of
collective identity other than class identity as a
divisive impediment to radical transformational
social struggle”
2. “The second approach singles out racial
identity specifically as founded on a biological
fiction and therefore as an invalid category of
social analysis”.
Racial identity as problem rather
than solution
5. Racial identity as problem rather than
solution
• Wendy Brown
• “Identity politics either commits itself to the
preservation of class inequality or becomes caught up
in an unproductive cycle of blame and resentment”
• Walter Benn Michaels
• “race is an unjustifiable category of social
classification.”
• race is “irreducible to action because it is possible
for someone to act in a way incompatible with her or
his race.”
6. • Anibal Quijano and his definition of race.
• For Quijano, race emerges in the sixteenth
century, alongside a complex and global
reorganization of power around three interrelated and
inseparable factors: coloniality, capitalism, and
Eurocentrism.
• Manuel Castells and his theory about race is
combined with different dimensions of religion, class
ethnicity, and gender.
In the power of race and the
coloniality of power
7. Is it real? Is it really real?
• Race has a material-economic reality in the
immediate effects and legacies of racism.
• Race has a social and psychological reality as an
existing system of beliefs and attitudes.
• Race exists in a physical or biological form, as bodily
matter.
8. 1. How does the text “fit”?
2. The connection of this article and feminism.
3. Does this it fit the time?
10. Questions
• What would then be the relation between Hames-
Garcia (together with these theories) and women?
• According to Hames-García, social
identities, including race, make a significant difference
for how people live their lives, for what kinds of
experiences they are likely to have, and how they are
treated by others. How is social identities related from
intersectionality?
