Identities race class gender and nationality alcoff linda martin mendieta eduardo 9780631217237 amazoncom books. This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about . The relationship between race ethnicity and identity is a complex subject ethnicity means that an individual belongs to a specific culture social groups or nation although race is defined by physical biological attributes it is also strongly tied to cultural and behavioral attributes as well. Onstrates that questions of identity that today get articulated in terms of race class gender and nationality have been a primary concern for the last 200 years we are told that two aims governed the selection of readings 1 to show that current concerns about and deployments of identity have not