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Mistaken Identity Race And Class In The Age Of Trump
Paperback Edition: 1
The phenomenon of "identity politics" represents one of the primary impasses of the left, and has occasioned the reignition of 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 neutralisation of its movements. It marks a retreat from the crucial passage from identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to collective struggle against an oppressive social structure.
Publisher : Verso Books
Publication date : 2018-07-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Sociology, Social & Cultural History, Black & Asian Studies