Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Softcover

Haider, Asad

 
9781786637376: Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1786637375 ISBN 13: 9781786637376
Verlag: Verso, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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 collective struggle against an oppressive social structure.

Mistaken Identity is an urgent call for alternative visions, languages, and practices against the white identity politics of right-wing populism. Responding with a contrary, pluralist identity politics has proven successful. The idea of universal emancipation now seems old-fashioned and outmoded. But if we are attentive to the lines of struggle which lie outside the boundaries of the state, we will see that it has been placed on the agenda once again.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Asad Haider is a founding Editor of Viewpoint Magazine, an investigative journal of contemporary politics. He is the author of Mistaken Identity and a co-editor for The Black Radical Tradition (forthcoming). His writing can be found in The Baffler, n+1, The Point, Salon, and elsewhere.

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Verlag
Verso
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786637375
ISBN 13 
9781786637376
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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