{"id":10349,"date":"2011-09-01T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:34:37","slug":"identity-complex-a-groundbreaking-new-book-by-michael-hames-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/identity-complex-a-groundbreaking-new-book-by-michael-hames-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Complex\u2014a groundbreaking new book by Michael Hames-Garc\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10350\" href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?attachment_id=10350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10350\" title=\"identity-complex\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/identity-complex.jpg\" alt=\"book cover\" width=\"181\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/identity-complex.jpg 181w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/identity-complex-96x150.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a>Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><a title=\"faculty page\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/ethnic\/hames-garcia.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Hames-Garc\u00eda<\/a>, Professor, University of Oregon Department of Ethnic Studies<\/p>\n<p>University of Minnesota Press (August 2011)<\/p>\n<p>From the publisher: \u201cGrounded in both theoretical and political practices\u2014in the lived realities of people\u2019s experience\u2014<em>Identity Complex<\/em> reinvigorates identity as a key concept and as a tool for the pursuit of social justice. Hames-Garc\u00eda draws on a wide range of examples to show that social identities are central to how exploitation works, such as debates about the desirability of sexual minority identities in postcolonial contexts, questions about the reality of race, and the nature of the U.S. prison crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hames-Garc\u00eda is co-editor of the recent collection, <em>Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader <\/em>(Duke University Press, 2011). He is a CSWS faculty affiliate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Identity Complex<\/em> is a brilliantly argued, much needed intervention that redefines the terms and changes the stakes of the contemporary debate over identity politics. Michael Hames-Garc\u00eda&#8217;s transformative understanding of identity formations establishes his standing as the foremost scholar in the field.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 Donald Pease, Dartmouth College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity Michael Hames-Garc\u00eda, Professor, University of Oregon Department of Ethnic Studies University of Minnesota Press (August 2011) From the publisher: \u201cGrounded in both theoretical and political practices\u2014in the lived realities of people\u2019s experience\u2014Identity Complex&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/identity-complex-a-groundbreaking-new-book-by-michael-hames-garcia\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32581,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349\/revisions\/32581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}