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Sexual violence has become a topic of intense media scrutiny, thanks to the bravery of survivors coming forward to tell their stories. But, unfortunately, mainstream public spheres too often echo reports in a way that inhibits proper understanding of its causes, placing too much emphasis on individual responsibility or blaming minority cultures. In this powerful and original book, Linda MartIn Alcoff aims to correct the misleading language of public debate about rape and sexual violence by showing how complex our experiences of sexual violation can be. Although it is survivors who have galvanized movements like #MeToo, when their words enter the public arena they can be manipulated or interpreted in a way that damages their effectiveness. Rather than assuming that all experiences of sexual violence are universal, we need to be more sensitive to the local and personal contexts -- who is speaking and in what circumstances -- that affect how activists' and survivors' protests will be received and understood. Alcoff has written a book that will revolutionize the way we think about rape, finally putting the survivor center stage.

Intro -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- Introduction: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being -- Whiteness As Real, and Really Open-Ended -- Whiteness from Below -- "Race" -- The Future is an Ought as well as an Is -- A View from the Margins -- 1: An Analytic of Whiteness -- Two Negative Examples -- What Social Identities Are -- The History of "Race" -- Class -- The Problem of the One and the Many -- What Do We Mean When We Talk About "Whiteness?" -- Empirical Whiteness -- Imaginary Whiteness -- Subjective Whiteness -- Notes -- 2: White Exceptionalism -- Newton Versus Goethe -- Universalism Versus Purity -- Antiracist White Exceptionalism -- The Historicism of Concepts, Or the Meaning Question -- The Instability of Racism -- What To Do… -- Small Revolutions -- Notes -- 3: Double Consciousness -- Avoidance, Denial, Shame -- Ethnicity Instead of Race? -- Left-Wing Post-Racialism -- Aryan and Caucasian Myths -- White Labor -- Three Arguments Against Eliminativism -- White Double Consciousness -- Notes -- Conclusion: A Place in the Rainbow -- Unglorious Whiteness -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

Visible Identities offers a careful analysis of the political and philosophical worries about identity and argues that these worries are neither supported by the empirical data nor grounded in realistic understandings of what identities are. Martín Alcoff develops a more realistic characterization of identity in general through combining phenomenological approaches to embodiment with hermeneutic concepts of the interpretive horizon. Besides addressing the general contours of social identity, Martín Alcoff develops an account of the material infrastructure of gendered identity, compares and contrasts gender identities with racialized ones, and explores the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites. In several chapters she looks specifically at Latino identity as well, including its relationship to concepts of race, the specific forms of anti-Latino racism, and the politics of mestizo or hybrid identity.

Este artigo discute a necessidade de desenvolvimento de uma epistemologia decolonial revolucionária, identificando dois obstáculos para a formulação de uma nova epistemologia: um relacionado à própria epistemologia e outro às discussões sobre identidade. Argumenta-se pela necessidade de um debate propositivo e reconstrutivo sobre a verdade, bem como de uma discussão reconstrutiva sobre como e por quem o conhecimento é produzido. Por outro lado, defende-se que as concepções que asseveram que toda e qualquer reivindicação por identidade seja marcada por um excesso de essencialismo emergem também como obstáculo. Em seu lugar, propõem-se explicações mais fidedignas acerca da realidade que possam avaliar em que contexto os movimentos sociais baseados em identidades se tornam estreitos e conformistas e quando significam uma ampliação da participação política e da formação de coalizões.

This article analyzes Nancy Fraser's account of the contrasting social movements for recognition versus those for redistribution. In her most recent analysis, only those forms of recognition struggles that she equates with identity politics are subject to critique. I argue that identity politics does not have an inevitable logic to it that destines it to fracture, border patrol, internal conservatism, etc., and further that the very redistribution claims she proposes require identity politics.