Description: In this ambitious and compelling book, Kristina Lepold challenges the common assumption that recognition is positive, emphasizing its ambivalent role in social life.
Review Quotes: Feminists and multicultural theorists often argue that oppressed people have to misrepresent their interests--and their selves--in order to be politically legible. Lepold's important book sheds new light on what is at stake in claims that the marginalized are misrecognized.--Serene Khader, author of Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop