Enigmas of Identity

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Princeton University Press) Brooks examines aspects of the emergence of identity, showing how people continuously search for their own. He addresses social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University.

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Terri Sewell ’86 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, stands next to a portrait of civil rights leader John Lewis.
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