{"product_id":"9780739171905","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":"Andrew J. Pierce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45816408834366,"sku":"9780739171905","price":3384.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780739171905_5caeb098-196a-4843-a497-b4c708d757c7.jpg?v=1707316837","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780739171905","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}