67 Quotes About Identity-politics

I think patriotism should be all about wanting to see Liberia develops, beyond one's commitment to a tribe, party, leaders, and past identity politics.

My field," she said. "It should be a soft safe place for understanding. Instead it's a war zone. I choose peace.

The politics of redistribution is being replaced by the politics of recognition. How much fun will it be to recognize how poor and atomized we all become!

Culture is who we are; culture is who we become!

You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

We're forced to walk a difficult line by this insistence that we only write about our personal journeys," I told the audience. "We end up in this position of only being allowed to represent ourselves, but having to make sure we don't misrepresent everyone. This creates some division in our communities - everyone has their own opinion about what's good representation and what isn't, and you can't please them all." (p. 231)

The faceless, sexless, raceless proletariat. The faceless, raceless, classless category of "all women". Both creations of white Western self-centeredness. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location.

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.