In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary texts, and popular cultural representations, Gillman advances a comparative theoretical model of identity and consciousness that foregrounds a naturalist-realist account. She demonstrates that reason and knowledge originate from diverse human practices enacted in the social and natural world and can be explained and justified entirely in terms of them.

Introduction: Re-conceptualizing Identity Politics in a Post Identity Politics Age Reimagining Identity Politics in the New Millennium: A Postpositivist Realist Approach Womanisms at the Interstices of Disciplines, Movements, Periodizations, and Nations Story-telling as Embodied Knowledge: Womanist Praxis in Alice Walker's The Color Purple Latina/o Mestizaje/Mulatez : Vexed Histories, Ambivalent Symbolisms, and Radical Revisions Constructing Identity(ies) through lo Cotidiano /Every Day Practice: A Postpositivist Realist Approach to Popular Spatial Traditions in Amalia Mesa-Bains' Domesticana Aesthetic, Ada María Isasi-Díaz's Mujerista Theology , and Ana Castillo's So Far from God