Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law (Paperback)

We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them. Where it once seemed that the ideal of American citizenship was found in the promise of integration and in the hope that none of us would be singled out for, let alone judged by, our race or ethnicity, today integration, often taken to mean a denial of identity and history for subordinated racial, gender, sexual or ethnic groups, is often rejected, and new terms of inclusion are sought. The essays in "Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law" ask us to examine carefully the relation of cultural struggle and material transformation and law's role in both. Written by scholars from a variety of disciplines and theoretical inclinations, the essays challenge orthodox understandings of the nature of identity politics and contemporary debates about separatism and assimilation. They ask us to think seriously about the ways law has been, and is, implicated in these debates. The essays address questions such as the challenges posed for notions of legal justice and procedural fairness by cultural pluralism and identity politics, the role played by law in structuring the terms on which recognition, accommodation, and inclusion are accorded to groups in the United States, and how much of accepted notions of law are defined by an ideal of integration and assimilation.
The contributors are Elizabeth Clark, Lauren Berlant, Dorothy Roberts, Georg Lipsitz, and Kenneth Karst.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought
Release date:	December 2001
First published:	December 2001
Editors:	Austin Sarat • Thomas R. Kearns
Dimensions:	230 x 151 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-08851-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > General
LSN:	0-472-08851-3
Barcode:	9780472088515

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