Mistaken Identity
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: May 15, 2018
Words:
39572
Flesch:
45.4
DDC:
306.20973
FAST Tags:
United States,
White people--Politics and government,
African Americans--Politics and government,
Social conditions,
Political culture,
Race relations--Political aspects,
Identity politics,
Polarization (Social sciences)
LCC:
JK1726
Book Details
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Description:
An urgent call for alternative visions, languages, and practices against the white identity politics of right-wing populism.
The phenomenon of "identity politics" represents one of the primary impasses of the contemporary left. The recent experience of the Democratic primaries and the re-emergence of social movements from Occupy to Black Lives Matter has generated a new context for identity politics to become an active force, and new ground to relitigate the frustrating debates between the partisans of "race" and "class" ad infinitum.
In Mistaken Identity, Asad Haider reaches for a different approach - one rooted in the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing from the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements, a retreat from the crucial passage from identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to...