Considers the meanings, problems, and possibilities of contemporary identity politics. Explores different approaches toward identity and politics, including liberal, existential, and traditionalist understandings. Traces the emergence of a new kind of identity politics out of racial, feminist, and queer movements of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Assesses contemporary discussions of identity and politics, in relation to both the history of Western thought and contemporary multicultural societies. Authors discussed may include Locke, Sartre, MacIntyre, Fanon, Young, Taylor, Butler, Azoulay, and Alcoff. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.

Degree requirement — Critical Learning: HP, Critical Learning: SHB

1 unit — Gomez

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Spring 2025	Block 5	Philosophy and Politics of Identity	Cody Gomez	Armstrong Hall 334	25 / 12	07/26/2025
Spring 2026	Block 6	Philosophy and Politics of	Cody Gomez	TBA	25 / 25	07/26/2025