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The Equality Chameleon: Reflections on Social Identity, Passing, and Groupism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2007

Eithne McLaughlin
Eithne McLaughlin
Affiliation:
Chair of Social Policy, The Queens University of Belfast E-mail: e.mclaughlin@qub.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper explores issues of social and multiple identity and their implications for equality law and practice. The paper considers three principal dilemmas – passing, groupism and the limitations of participatory justice as a political strategy for the achievement of equality. The objective is to contribute a ‘thick’ understanding of issues of identity and identification with which to inform and situate the development of the UK's ‘single equality approach’. The paper argues that the negotiations of identity required of members of minority groups is a form of work.

Type
Themed Section on Equality
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 69 - 79
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2007

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