Introduction : reconceptualizing 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 -- Storytelling as emobodied knowledge : womanist praxis in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Latina/o mestizaje/mulatez : vexed histories, ambivalent symbolisms, and radical revisions -- Construcing identity(ies) through lo cotidiano ('everyday 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