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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 -- The End of Identity Liberalism -- Identity Politics and Its Defenders -- Who Gets to Write What -- Will the Left Survive the Millennials? -- The Identity Politics of Whiteness -- How 'Privilege' Became a Provocation -- CHAPTER 2 -- Is the Slide Into Tribal Politics Inevitable? -- White Women Voted Trump. Now What? -- The Populism Perplex -- Why Americans Vote 'Against Their Interest': Partisanship -- The Great Political Divide Over American Identity -- A Year After Trump, Women and Minorities Give Groundbreaking Wins to Democrats -- Resistance, for the Win! -- Stacey Abrams Didn't Play It Safe. Neither Do These Female Candidates. -- 'Don't Run This Year': The Perils for Republican Women Facing a Flood of Resistance -- CHAPTER 3 -- The Real 'Trump Effect' for Young Latinos -- Identity Politics and a Dad's Loss -- What Donald Trump Doesn't Know About Black People -- Is All This Talk of Racism Bad for Democrats? -- We Got Rid of Some Bad Men. Now Let's Get Rid of Bad Movies. -- The Stars of 'Black Panther' Waited a Lifetime for This Moment -- With 'There There,' Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic -- For Some Viewers, 'Crazy Rich Asians' Is Not Asian Enough -- CHAPTER 4 -- Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language -- A Voice of Hate in America's Heartland -- Free Speech and the Necessity of Discomfort -- What the Alt-Right Really Means -- Behind 2016's Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity -- The Pull of Racial Patronage -- Why Trump Supporters Distrust Immigration and Diversity -- We're All Fascists Now -- A Renaissance on the Right -- Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About 'Trump Country' -- CHAPTER 5 -- When Hillary Clinton Killed Feminism -- 'Bro'-liferation.

This review presents an overview of research on identity politics. First, I distinguish between various approaches to defining identity politics and the challenges presented by each approach. In the process, I show that these approaches reflect competing theoretical understandings of the relationship between experience, culture, identity, politics, and power. These debates raise theoretical issues that I address in the second section, including (a) how to understand the relationship between personal experience and political stance, (b) why status identities are understood and/or portrayed as essentialist or socially constructed, (c) the strategic dilemmas activists face when the identities around which a movement is organized are also the basis for oppression, (d) when to attribute certain movement outcomes to status identities, and (e) how to link collective action to specific notions of power to help explain the cultural and political goals at which identity politics is aimed. I conclude by recommending some promising avenues for future research.

"In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history."--Jacket

Pornography reappropriated by feminist and queer pornographers is being reimagined as a site of activist productions, be it through the reshaping of desire or engaging with wider discussions of representational politics. Here, I take up Shine Louise Houston's feature length film, The Wild Search, as a unique case study for addressing the relationship between debates of identity politics and queer activist practice. ; K. Heintzman, 'Identity Politics Redux', in Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing , ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 8 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 141–61

Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion of whites actively identify with their racial group and support policies and candidates that they view as protecting whites' power and status. In White Identity Politics, Ashley Jardina offers a landmark analysis of emerging patterns of white identity and collective political behavior, drawing on sweeping data. Where past research on whites' racial attitudes emphasized out-group hostility, Jardina brings into focus the significance of in-group identity and favoritism. White Identity Politics shows that disaffected whites are not just found among the working class; they make up a broad proportion of the American public - with profound implications for political behavior and the future of racial conflict in America

Social and political sciences use the term 'identity' in describing a wide range of phenomena, whether these be personal explanations of self-understanding, descriptions of common interests or the shared experiences of a larger group. It has been used in the recent analyses of countries or larger communities, but also in the historical studies of very different societies in developing or industrialized countries. To make the concept more operational and open to empirical research, we dichotomize it into an inclusive versus an exclusive type. This enables us to carve out the different policy conclusions associated with each type. We then apply the concepts for analysing the emergence of European identity over the past decades, as well as its limits and recent headwinds. We present survey data on national and supranational identity and country differences concerning trust in national and European institutions. As a counter-strategy to populism and the exclusive type of identity, political observers, from scientists to members of the media, are split into suggesting either a "cordon sanitaire" to discourage voting for such ideas versus an embracement strategy by including their representatives into government, thereby controlling them or revealing their incompetence. This paper, in contrast, ventures a proactive strategy of four steps to localize the root causes of the success of populism, offering an inclusive vision for the long run, policy instruments for economic improvements and a new narrative.

Pornography reappropriated by feminist and queer pornographers is being reimagined as a site of activist productions, be it through the reshaping of desire or engaging with wider discussions of representational politics. Here, K. Heintzman takes up Shine Louise Houston's feature length film, "The Wild Search", as a unique case study for addressing the relationship between debates of identity politics and queer activist practice.